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]]> By: Ai-Feng Kao https://blog.innovativelanguage.com/2009/10/25/stephen-krashen%e2%80%99s-acquisition-learning-hypothesis/#comment-6572 Ai-Feng Kao Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:23:06 +0000 https://blog.innovativelanguage.com/2009/10/25/stephen-krashen%e2%80%99s-acquisition-learning-hypothesis/#comment-6572 This blog provides great information and well organized format to look for the related topics. Although Stephen Krashen has been criticized for not having enough evidence for his theories, but I certainly believe that the five hypothesis do have influential effects for the field of second language acquisition. This blog provides great information and well organized format to look for the related topics.

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]]> By: Neoglitch https://blog.innovativelanguage.com/2009/10/25/stephen-krashen%e2%80%99s-acquisition-learning-hypothesis/#comment-4711 Neoglitch Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:20:04 +0000 https://blog.innovativelanguage.com/2009/10/25/stephen-krashen%e2%80%99s-acquisition-learning-hypothesis/#comment-4711 @ James H: First, thanks for pointing out that Krashen's theories derive from the works of Chomsky, Seliger, Brown... and well, others. I didn't know that. (I'm the 'kanji' guy hehe) Now, you want your students to achieve proficiency in the language you are "teaching" them? Then teach them to become independent learners. Encourage them to read and listen to material on topics they are actually interested in. Suggest them to use dictionaries and other online resources to expand their vocab and find the meaning of words they don't understand. In class, have them read and listen to audio in the target language too. Play videos or a movie in class if you can. If they ask about words they don't understand describe the meaning of them and also provide example sentences. Basically, focus your classes on giving your students lots of native media (comprehensible input is a very relative term, really). I'm no teacher and you have been working on the field for two decades. However, if I were a student, I would rather have this kind of experience instead of a boring class focused on grammar explanations, drills, boring textbooks and a bunch of tests. An experience where the student is having fun and reading/listening to content by his/her own will is MUCH more effective than the traditional methodologies. Try it! :D @ James H: First, thanks for pointing out that Krashen’s theories derive from the works of Chomsky, Seliger, Brown… and well, others. I didn’t know that. (I’m the ‘kanji’ guy hehe)

Now, you want your students to achieve proficiency in the language you are “teaching” them? Then teach them to become independent learners. Encourage them to read and listen to material on topics they are actually interested in. Suggest them to use dictionaries and other online resources to expand their vocab and find the meaning of words they don’t understand.

In class, have them read and listen to audio in the target language too. Play videos or a movie in class if you can. If they ask about words they don’t understand describe the meaning of them and also provide example sentences. Basically, focus your classes on giving your students lots of native media (comprehensible input is a very relative term, really).

I’m no teacher and you have been working on the field for two decades. However, if I were a student, I would rather have this kind of experience instead of a boring class focused on grammar explanations, drills, boring textbooks and a bunch of tests. An experience where the student is having fun and reading/listening to content by his/her own will is MUCH more effective than the traditional methodologies.

Try it! :D

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]]> By: James H https://blog.innovativelanguage.com/2009/10/25/stephen-krashen%e2%80%99s-acquisition-learning-hypothesis/#comment-3322 James H Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:43:25 +0000 https://blog.innovativelanguage.com/2009/10/25/stephen-krashen%e2%80%99s-acquisition-learning-hypothesis/#comment-3322 Krashen's theories are intuitively appealing but unfalsifiable (meaning there's no way to show if he's right or wrong). There's plenty out there on WHY this is so. (Google Kevin Gregg, for example.) My main objection, as a long-term (20+ years) language teacher is that his "input only" stance has led a lot of teachers to believe that they don't have to know jack about how the language works - all they have to do is provide enough "comprehensible input" (whatever that means) and their students will end up with high proficiency in English. If they fail, it's then because the input wasn't rich enough? Comprehensible enough? No, if they fail, it could be because of a hundred other reasons, not the least of which is that adults are not children. Not biologically, not socially, not anyhow. So you cannot compare L1 acquisition with L2 acquisition, except in the most banal ways. Krashen does this bait and switch all the time in his writings; whenever it suits him, he picks the evidence that supports his "theories" (which he arrogantly calls "THE theory of second language acquisition" - and no, "kanji", he is in NO way "the father of language acquisition", since HIS theoretical daddies are Chomsky, Seliger, Brown etc etc) and trashes everyone else without ONCE, EVER, in 30 years, actually defining any of his major constructs in ways that can be tested. Compared to chew-your-own-arm-off grammar translation, maybe his Natural Approach had something going for it; compared to any halfway decent communicative teacher, he's old hat. Forget him and move on. Krashen’s theories are intuitively appealing but unfalsifiable (meaning there’s no way to show if he’s right or wrong). There’s plenty out there on WHY this is so. (Google Kevin Gregg, for example.)

My main objection, as a long-term (20+ years) language teacher is that his “input only” stance has led a lot of teachers to believe that they don’t have to know jack about how the language works - all they have to do is provide enough “comprehensible input” (whatever that means) and their students will end up with high proficiency in English. If they fail, it’s then because the input wasn’t rich enough? Comprehensible enough? No, if they fail, it could be because of a hundred other reasons, not the least of which is that adults are not children. Not biologically, not socially, not anyhow. So you cannot compare L1 acquisition with L2 acquisition, except in the most banal ways.

Krashen does this bait and switch all the time in his writings; whenever it suits him, he picks the evidence that supports his “theories” (which he arrogantly calls “THE theory of second language acquisition” - and no, “kanji”, he is in NO way “the father of language acquisition”, since HIS theoretical daddies are Chomsky, Seliger, Brown etc etc) and trashes everyone else without ONCE, EVER, in 30 years, actually defining any of his major constructs in ways that can be tested.

Compared to chew-your-own-arm-off grammar translation, maybe his Natural Approach had something going for it; compared to any halfway decent communicative teacher, he’s old hat. Forget him and move on.

]]> By: How to learn kanji for real https://blog.innovativelanguage.com/2009/10/25/stephen-krashen%e2%80%99s-acquisition-learning-hypothesis/#comment-2966 How to learn kanji for real Fri, 13 May 2011 02:24:30 +0000 https://blog.innovativelanguage.com/2009/10/25/stephen-krashen%e2%80%99s-acquisition-learning-hypothesis/#comment-2966 My $0.02: Stephen Krashen is right. Immersion is how you acquire a language; your language and ANY other language. You didn't learn English because you studied it for 12 years; you already had it all in your mind by the age of 5 because of immersion. So much exposure made it become part of you. Although there are certain tools that accelerate the acquiring process (like SRS software), immersion is the key. And all people that say it's wrong are teachers or language institute owners that want their innefective businesses to stay here! Anyways, thanks for sharing about the father of language acquisition. See ya! :D My $0.02:

Stephen Krashen is right. Immersion is how you acquire a language; your language and ANY other language.

You didn’t learn English because you studied it for 12 years; you already had it all in your mind by the age of 5 because of immersion. So much exposure made it become part of you.

Although there are certain tools that accelerate the acquiring process (like SRS software), immersion is the key. And all people that say it’s wrong are teachers or language institute owners that want their innefective businesses to stay here!

Anyways, thanks for sharing about the father of language acquisition. See ya! :D

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