THE ROLE OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The basic aim of the psycholinguistic approach has always been disregarded in the field of foreign language teaching and learning, it is a matter of fact, this field of study is the first initiator of the area of foreign language teaching and learning. In this article, as a field of interdisciplinary study, various relations of the psycholinguistic approach to mother tongue teaching and foreign language teaching are investigated by giving solid sources. As a result of this investigation it has been discovered that the psycholinguistic approach, in fact, as an interdisciplinary study, has a problem solving relation in ELT, and that it has a blocking function of the negative transfers of the interferences from the mother tongue to the target language in terms of teaching reading-writing- listening-speaking skills.