An Analysis Study of how social school differs from cognitive school from the postmodernism philosophy

The cognitive and the social schools show fundamental differences in their understanding of language and learning, the object of SLA, research method and philosophical stance. This thesis wants to analyze how social school differs from cognitive school from the postmodernism philosophy and the reason why the social school is more suitable for China‘s second language teaching and learning. All in all, the social school has a wider range of object of observation and emphasizes on the relationship between the researchers and the objects of study. Besides the social school are more open to all the study methods and techniques.