The view that learners should be exposed to language, and that errors are…

Concept

Theories of language learning differ mainly in what they treat as the mechanism of learning and how they interpret learner errors. In cognitive accounts, learners actively build and revise an internal system from language input; systematic errors can therefore reveal the rules the learner is currently testing.

Application

The statement joins two ideas: learners need exposure to language input, and their errors show that rule formation is in progress. That combination describes active hypothesis formation and revision, which is the cognitivist account of language learning.

Contrast

• Behaviourists explain learning through stimulus, response, repetition, reinforcement, and habit formation; errors are responses to be reshaped through corrective practice.

• Humanists centre learning on emotional security, self-esteem, autonomy, and personal growth rather than on a theory of internal rule construction.

• Psychoanalytic accounts focus on unconscious drives and conflicts and do not provide the language-learning mechanism described in the stem.

Result

Therefore, the view described is advocated by the Cognitivist school.