The School of Language Teaching: In this paper, the
basic schools of language teaching such as
Behaviorism Cognitive and Constructionist 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 each other. 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 Behaviorism. The basic theories
of the behaviorist school are on empirical evidence
obtained from experiments with living organisms and
laboratory animals. Richards, et al [16] mentioned
that “Behaviorism was an important influence on
psychology,education and language teaching,
especially in the United States and was used by
psychologists like Skinner, Osgood and Stats to
explain first language learning. The term behavior 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 behaviorist school, the process of language
teaching can be explained in terms of conditions.
In addition, Conditioning is a process of shaping and
molding of behaviorist behavior is
induced and undesirable behavior is extinguished.
Eaten [17] mentioned that the implications of the
behaviorist model of language learning as follows: