Applying Educational Psychology Ideas into SLA (original) (raw)

This paper explores six major ideas of educational psychology and looks at how those ideas are related to second language acquisition (SLA) teaching. Furthermore, the application of those ideas would be beneficial to SLA teaching. Often SLA is treated as a different subject separated from the rest of the academic subjects taught in the educational system, and tends to be viewed as requiring a different sets of skills and tools to master. It might be true in some aspects of SLA, however, many of techniques which are effective in educational psychology field can be used in SLA as well. This paper examines the following ideas from educational psychology and explores how they can be applied to SLA: Interleave worked example solutions with problem-solving exercises, anchored learning, deep question, spaced learning over time, explanation effect, generation effect.