... 2.2.2. Theories of language learning2.2.2.1. Cognitive theoryEmerging in the late 1950s, and beginning to be dominant theory of learning, but really having powerful influence on instructional ... thinking, attending, knowing, remembering and problem-solving are working. Task-based approach of teaching realized the central viewpoint of cognitivism as one of the main philosophies of this method ... cognitive theory of learning is the problem-solving tasks. Thus, the cognitive model of teaching is defined as a model of teaching in which the teacher selects learning tasks according to the learner's...