cognitive Approach
The cognitive Approach offered relief to the criticisms bombarded to the behaviorist features of the Audiolingual Approach.it was influenced by cognitive psychology (Neisser, 1967)and Chomskyan linguistics (Chomsky,1959,1965)According to chomsky's Generative linguistics,language is represented as a speaker's mental grammar,a set of abstract rules for generating grammatical sentences.The rules generate the syntactic structure and lexical items from appropriate grammatical categories are selected to fill in the corresponding slots in the syntactic frames.In this approach,language learning is viewed as rule-acquisition,not habit-formation,especially at intermediate and advanced levels.