HOW DO PEOPLE LEARN ESOL?

HOW DO PEOPLE LEARN ESOL?

ESOL is English for Speakers of Other Languages. English is the most internationally known language in this world. There are of course a lot of different ways in which people can adopt in order to learn ESOL. In this essay, we are going to look into some different approaches that can be taken. Those approaches include the behavioural, cognitive, affective and communicative views of learning.
The behavioural view is an approach that is practised in the psychology field. It is mainly habit formation, which simply means acquiring new habits for the learners so that they will keep practising the language. According to Skinner, “special techniques have been designed to arrange what are called ‘contingencies of reinforcement’ – the relations which prevail between behaviour on one hand and the consequences on the other – with the result that a much more effective control of behaviour has been achieved”. (Entwistle&Houdsell, 1977:27) There ...