“Top-down and bottom-up processing of knowledge in language learning”
Keywords:
Top-down process, bottom-up process, scientists’ theories, special peculiarities of these two approaches, Bloom’s taxonomy.Abstract
Top-down and bottom-up are well -known approaches in language learning as well as teaching.
This article is aimed at focusing on particular features of these two processes and how scientists deal with
teaching L2 for learners. Besides that, it covers similarities and differences of them, the ways that learners
acquire knowledge effectively and provide some examples
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