Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.380
SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF A NOVEL ENGLISH TEACHING METHOD BASED ON COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Abstract
In recent years, cognitive psychology and many other emerging technologies have been introduced to improve English teaching. Drawing on cognitive psychology, this paper fully explores the psychological features of students in the cognition of English vocabulary, and puts forward a novel teaching method for English vocabulary, using problem-based learning. Then, a comparative experiment was carried out on Englishmajors between the proposed teaching method and the traditional method. The basic situation, classroom performance, and learning ability of the subjects were measured through observation, exams and interviews. The results show that, due to problem-based learning, our method could effectively improvethelearningeffect and knowledge acquisition of the subjects, enabling them to form a personalized language learning mechanism. The research results provide an important reference for psychology-based English teaching.
Keywords
Cognitive Psychology, English Teaching, Simulation Analysis, Problem-Based Learning.