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Jean Piaget
developed the term of object permanence; paved the way for the interactionist perspective -
B. F. Skinner
proponent of the psychological theory of positive reinforcement; influenced the behaviorist perspective -
Noam Chomsky
paved the way for the Innatist perspective with Universal Grammar -
Nelson Brooks & Robert Lado
two proponents of the behaviorist perspective; linked memorization and mimicry in second language acquisition -
Searle
Speech Acts -
Larry Selinker
gave the name interlanguage to describe how the first language influences or becomes a part of the second language. -
Hymes
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H. Gardner
multiple intelligences -
Halliday
defined the term meaning potential and the three maacrofunctions: ideational functions, interpersonal function, and textual function. -
Brown
stages of acquisition -
Lev Vygotsky
developed the terms "zone of proximal development" and "scaffolding" which led to the interactionist perspective. -
Helmut Zobl
added to the contrastive analysis hypothesis with the French speakers learning English and the English speakers learning French. -
MacWhinney
the competition model -
Stephen Krashen
Monitor Model, comprehensible input hypothesis, i+ 1 hypothesis, affective filter hypothesis -
Pienneman
teachability theory -
R. Gardner
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Pienneman
processability theory -
Richard Smidt
proposed the noticing hypothesis -
Michael Long
revised the interaction hypothesis, and realized that corrective feedback fit into this theory -
Lyster & Ranta
types of corrective feedback (recasts) -
Robert DeKeyser & Richard Schmidt
researchers on the cognitive perspective and "information processing." -
Deb Roy
documented his son's acquisition of words; goes along with the innatist view; can be called cognitive linguistics