TEORI LINGUISTIK DAN PSIKOLOGI DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA

Abstract

This article discusses several language theories and psychological theories that
influence the educator's point of view in teaching languages both mother tongue
and second language learners. Among the linguistic theories described are
structuralism theories pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure in Europe; the first
figure to do a study of language with scientific principles and codified so that it can
be analyzed using systematic and clear methods. Other figures in this genre are
Leonardo Bloomfield, Edward Saphier, Charles Hokait and Charles Fries. Second,
the transformational generative theory pioneered by Noam Chomsky, who was
born in 1928 in Pennsylvania, United States. Psychological theories discussed are
the theories of behaviorism, nativism, cognitivism, functional, constructivism,
humanism and cybernetics