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Timothy Mason

Université de Versailles St. Quentin

From this page, you may consult my notes for each of the lectures. (These are gradually being replaced by a set of modules). Simply click on the lecture that you need to look at. They will be found under three headings :

  1. Second Language Acquisition Theory
  2. Developmental Psychology
  3. Sociology of the School

You may also consult an outline of the programme as a whole, including seminars and observation schedule. You will find a bibliography, with a number of Web Links. You will also find a set of e-mail contributions to FLTeach in which - among other things - I give a sketch of Krashen's five hypotheses.

Second Language Acquisition Theory

(These are the notes for the lectures to the degree-level semestrial course).

  1. Introduction and Chomsky on language acquisition
  2. The evidence from neurology and L1 acquisition
  3. Language acquisition under extreme conditions
  4. Some experiments in Second language acquisition
  5. Critique of Krashen - acquisition/learning
  6. Critique of Krashen - the Natural Order Hypothesis
  7. Interlanguage
  8. Interlanguage and Fossilization
  9. Critique of Krashen - the Input Hypothesis
  10. Critique of Krashen - the Monitor Hypothesis
  11. The Affective Filter Hypothesis
  12. Review of Krashen's hypotheses

The Mind and its Development

The lectures in the next two two sections were not given this year, and do not form part of your course, but may be of interest to you. In these, we look at theories of learning, and at the sociology of the educational system.

  1. Lecture 13 : The evolution of the Brain
  2. Lecture 14 : The Psychology of Development - Behaviourism
  3. Lecture 15 : The Psychology of Development - Freudism
  4. Lecture 16 : The Psychology of Development - Piaget & Vygotsky
  5. Lecture 17 : The Psychology of Development - Puberty
  6. Lecture 18 : Adolescence - a social construct

The School - Failure and Success

  1. Lecture 19 : The French School System - a Sociological Approach
  2. Lecture 20 : Schools - How do pupils fail?
  3. Lecture 21 : Schools that work (Unfinished)
  4. Lecture 22 : An Overview
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