Part 3
Assumptions concerning learning in general and language learning in particular
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29 Children need to be taught in order to
learn
30 Teaching can be seen as the pouring
of knowledge from the teacher to the
learner
31 Children are not passive recipients of
ready-made knowledge, therefore
they need to be given them the
chance to discover things by
themselves
32 Children cannot easily understand
abstract
concepts
(such
as
grammatical rules) as adults do
33 Children cannot easily appreciate
what is happening in a wider context
and therefore should be engaged in
immediate (here-and-now) events
34 Children have a more limited
capacity than adults to process
information, therefore they need to
be given more time to think
35 Children cannot concentrate in one
activity for a long period of time
36 If the teacher realizes that a task is
above the students’ current level of
ability, s/he has to abandon it and
give students something more
appropriate
37 Students can cope with tasks which
are above their current level of
ability if the teacher provides them
with the appropriate support and
guidance
38 Children are too young to decide
what to learn and how to learn it
39 Children cannot work in groups as
they become too noisy and they
resort to their mother tongue to do
the activities
40 The best way for children to develop
language is to imitate the way adults
use language and to practice it well
through repetition of correct
structures.
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