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RATIONALISM AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Second language learning has been governed historically by three major schools of thought: structuralism/behaviorism, rationalism/cognitive psychology and constructivism. Each school of thought emerged as a reaction to the previous one and was based on the predominant trends in the research of linguistics and psychology. The first school of thought was influenced by structural linguistics that treated language as a system of syntactical and grammatical habits established by means of training and behavouristic paradigm that focused on material and empirical evidence and excluded ‘mentalistic’ concepts from its field of research. Learning was regarded as mechanic process (stimulus-response). The second school of though is the focus of this paper, therefore, will be dwelled on later more extensively. The third school of thought is constructivism or humanistic approach and it focuses on an individual, on his/her uniqueness, that is, ability to construct his/her own reality that is predetermined by biological development and social interactions. The second school of thought is rationalism and cognitive psychology. It emerged in 1960s (with the publishing of Chomsky’s theories on transformational grammar) and was prevalent until 1970s.
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