Questão 3168609

Theoretical conceptions have guided the processes of teaching and learning foreign languages, which have been deeply influenced by psychology and specific linguistic theories that clarified the linguistic learning phenomenon. Learning a foreign language is understood as a process of acquiring new linguistic habits in foreign language practice. That would happen, primarily, by means of new habits’ automation, in a routine that would involve STIMULUS – learner exposition to lexical items, to syntactic structure, etc, to be learned; learner’s ANSWERS; and teacher’s REINFORCEMENT, when answer assessment would take place. The learning/teaching approach described resulted in the development of methodologies emphasizing repetition and substitution exercise, since its foundation is: