The Effects of the chomskyan revolution in linguistics on language teaching

Abstract

m ABSTRACT First chapter constitutes the introduction part of this thesis in which the aim and scope of the study is explained. To provide a base and a background to transformational -generative linguistics, I took develop ments during the first half of the twentieth century in linguistics, psy chology, philosophy, and language teaching methodology in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 involves the main subject of this thesis, where the Chomskyan Revolution in linguistics is studied thoroughly both from the psycholog ical and philosophical aspects after a brief explanation about generative linguistics in relation to syntactic structures. Chapter 3 is concerned with practical tasks, that is, main features of cognitive approaches in language teaching, especially communicative approach is explained. Chapter 5 is the conclusion part of this thesis in which further develop ments in language teaching is briefly expressed to remark the future relationship between linguistics and language teaching.