A Timeline of Major Theories/Theorists in Applied Linguistics

By jongeense

  • Behaviorism, BF Skinner

    Major theorist - BF Skinner

  • Universal Grammar, Chomsky

  • Speech Act Theory, Austin

  • Constrastive Analysis Hypothesis, Various Scholars

  • Communicative Competence, Hymes

  • Meaning Potential, Halliday

  • Zone of Proximal Development, Vygotsky

    Note, originally developed in the 1930s, and formalized in 1978

  • Competition Model, MacWhinney

  • Monitor Model, Krashen

    Comprehensible Input part of the model!

  • Output Hypothesis, Swain

  • Subtractive Bilingualism, Lambert

  • Long, Interaction Hypothesis

  • Noticing Hypothesis, Schmidt

  • Cummins, BIC/CALP

  • Ellis, Usage-based

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