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Ferdinand de Saussure likewise argued for the autonomy of linguistics from psychology. He created a semiotic theory which would eventually give rise to the movement in human sciences known as structuralism , followed by functionalism or functional structuralism, post-structuralism and other similar tendencies. [ 29 ]
Examples of scholars on the theoretical side include Francois Gouin, M.D. Berlitz, and Emile B. De Sauzé, whose rationalist theories of language acquisition dovetail with linguistic work done by Noam Chomsky and others. These theories led to a wider variety of teaching methods, ranging from the grammar-translation method and Gouin's "series ...