, and the learning processes involved were often interpreted in terms of an associationist psychology.The learning of a foreign language was viewed by the Direct Methodologists as analogous to the language acquisition, and the learning processes involved were often interpreted in terms of an associationist psychology. 直接教学法学者认为外语的学习类似于语言的习得，而学习过程往往是从联想心理学的角度来解释的。
