Rationalism is any view appealing to intellectual and deductive reason (as opposed to sensory experience or any religious teachings) as the source of knowledge or justification. Thus, it holds that some propositions are knowable by us by intuition alone, while others are knowable by being deduced through valid arguments from intuited propositions.
Cognitive psychology and generative Transformation: Ausubel said":child brain is not like a blank dish which learn whatever you teach him rather there are things on that ,when you say something to child ,he perceives that. Learning is an active process. When you say an example ,some students think about another examples. In these two disciplines the mind is viewed as an active agent in the process of thinking and emphasis is on meaningful learning as opposed to rote learning of behaviorism. .This idea that children learn their native language by copying the utterance of adult in their environment was rejected and replaced by "Generative theory "
Methodology: there wasn't new method in this time. They believed that a good teacher is a person who has variety methods and the students can't predict which what happen in every session. There is the mixture of L1 and L2 . No need a native pronunciation while in audio lingual method the emphasis is on native pronunciation.
Humanistic :It has three parts :Emotion(emotion)
Physical( body)
Cognitive(brain)
This part believes that a child is made of these three items and a good teacher should pay attention to all of them not only one or two parts.