INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………3 CHAPTER I INFLUENCE OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ON TEACHING IN ENGLISH TEACHING……………………………………...5 1.2 Cognitive English teaching method…………………………………………5
1.2 Form cognitive schema in students’ mind ……………………………………9
CHAPTER II AN OVERVIEW OF COGNITIVE APPROACH IN LANGUAGE LEARNING………………………………………………..…...20 2.1 Cognitive Approach to Learning…………………………………………….20
2.2 The cognitive approach to language learning and teaching………………….23
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………….……26
REFERENCES…………………………………………………………..............27 INTRODUCTION Cognitive psychology refers to the process that people process the information symbol by brain and its main theoretical goal is to explain the information processing method during human activity. In English teaching, cognitive psychology pays more attention to the driving role of concept and situational role of textbook, which is the further development of students’ intelligence for the purpose of improving students’ competence for language use. Based on this, the foreign language learning and teaching based on cognitive psychology is discussed in this paper.
At present, psychological cognition discipline and English teaching activity form a new teaching method, which is to analyze the influence of students’ learning experience and learning method on the academic performance by studying the relevant theoretical factors in English teaching. From the perspective of cognitive psychology, the analysis and study of English teaching activity can better connect the two disciplines and better serve the English teaching.
Cognitive psychology was developed in the 20th century and became an important discipline of western psychological research later. It is the psychological process of human in the cognition of a certain thing, which explains the psychological reaction activity and language performance of human in the cognitive process by modification, acquisition, processing and information storage method with memory, language, attention and other senior psychological reaction as the psychological research object and content. At present, people answer the various knowledge in the cognitive process by information transfer process, human perception process and thing comprehension method, that is, cognitive psychology is mainly to study the human psychological mechanism and is the input and output of human psychological information. The process of analysis and speculation of human psychological process and phenomenon is the core idea of psychology.
As cognitive psychology is developed on the basis of language development and modern information processing method and language is a dominated and constrained system symbol, the learning method of language should be mastered in the learning process. The relevant experts of cognitive psychology think learning is actually that the cognitive behavior organizes the information and then continuously understands and processes the acquired information; knowledge refers to the integration of the psychological experience, psychological structure and knowledge by using the association of objective things and interaction in the teaching process. The relevant scholars think the psychological cognition means to learn the knowledge of related disciplines and then evaluate and convert the knowledge. Some other scholars think learning is to form a cognition of the structure of external things and then form new knowledge structure system after fragmentation and integration. Therefore, in English teaching, the organic combination of English teaching and psychology can make English teaching effective and scientific. In English education, the influence of cognitive psychology on students’ intelligence is generally stresses and students’ English level is cultivated by improving their understanding and use of language rules.