The School of Language Teaching: In this paper, the
basic schools of language teaching such as
Behaviorism, Cognitivism and Constructivism are
related to psychology of learning will be explained. In
addition, linguistics and psychology are closely
intertwined, so both of them are necessary to discuss
with eachother. Linguistics and psychology has
affected on Language teaching that is why, language
learning involves the individual learner, motivations
for learning, memory etc. Meanwhile, language learning
focuses on actual learning processes that take
place in the minds of individuals. One of the school
language teachings is Behaviourism. The basic theories
of the behaviourist school are on empirical evidence
obtained from experiments with living organisms and
laboratory animals. Richards, et al [16] mentioned
that “Behaviourism was an important influence on
psychology,educationand language teaching,
especially in the United States and was used by
psychologists like Skinner, Osgood and Staats to
explain first language learning. The term behaviour is
to be interpreted in terms of stimulus and response.
In addition, when a dog sees a piece of meat (stimulus),
it salivates (response). According to psychologists of
the behaviourist school, the process of language
teaching can be explained in terms of conditions.
In addition, Conditioning is a process of shaping and
moulding of behaviour: desired behavior is
induced and undesirable behaviour is extinguished.
Eapen [17] mentioned that the implications of the
behaviourist model of language learning as follows: