Input hypothesis is one of the most well known theories developed by Krashen. He simply stated that L2s are acquired by understanding messages or by receiving comprehensible input (Krashen, 1985). He defined comprehensible input as a bit of language that is read or heard and that is slightly ahead of a learner’s current state of grammatical knowledge. He referred to this current state of knowledge as i and the next stage as i + 1. This principle is very important when it comes to teaching a second language. Teachers should keep in mind that the target language that they want their students to learn should be slightly ahead of the student’s current knowledge. In other words, what teachers want students to learn should not be much difficult than what they already know or what they have learned.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
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Input hypothesis is one of the most well known theories developed by Krashen. He simply stated that L2s are acquired by understanding messages or by receiving comprehensible input (Krashen, 1985). He defined comprehensible input as a bit of language that is read or heard and that is slightly ahead of a learner’s current state of grammatical knowledge. He referred to this current state of knowledge as i and the next stage as i + 1. This principle is very important when it comes to teaching a second language. Teachers should keep in mind that the target language that they want their students to learn should be slightly ahead of the student’s current knowledge. In other words, what teachers want students to learn should not be much difficult than what they already know or what they have learned.
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