Post date: Aug 20, 2009 3:1:36 PM
Littlewood's book, Foreign and second language learning: language-acquisition research and its ... Chapter 2 - Behaviourism and Second lang learning
Wikipedia: Its main influences were Ivan Pavlov, who investigated classical conditioning, Edward Lee Thorndike, John B. Watson who rejected introspective methods and sought to restrict psychology to experimental methods, and B.F. Skinner who conducted research on operant conditioning. In the second half of the twentieth century, behaviorism was largely eclipsed as a result of the cognitive revolution