Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.377
APPLICATION OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN ENGLISH TEACHING
Abstract
Economic globalization has brought numerous opportunities to communicate in English in work and daily life. This calls for an effective model for ordinary people to master English. Against this backdrop, this paper puts forward an English teaching model based on the distribution of English learning resources, in the light of cognitive psychology. The model was constructed after comparing the effects of two common learning models, namely, mechanical learning and comprehension learning. The proposed model was empirically tested among a group of students. The experimental class was taught by our model, while the control class was taught by the traditional cognitive model. The results of pre- and post-tests show that the experimental class achieved better English proficiency than the control class, indicating the feasibility of the proposed model. The research results highlight the importance of cognitive psychology in English teaching and learning, providing a good reference for similar studies.
Keywords
Cognitive Psychology, English Teaching, Teaching Resources, Model.