This is from Mary Beth. I found the first eight minutes not very useful to his argument but if you start around the 8′ point you can get his point that he is for comprehensible input: Hey Ben – I can’t remember, but I think you posted this TEDx video a year or two ago […]
Grant sent this: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/trying-harder-makes-it-more-difficult-to-learn-some-aspects-of-language-0721 “The results indicate that learning to identify relatively simple parts of language, such as words, is facilitated by effortful learning, whereas learning more complex aspects of language, such as grammatical features, is impeded by effortful learning.” “The findings support a theory of language acquisition that suggests that some parts of language
Krashen’s natural order hypothesis is a fairly important idea for any language educator to consider when deciding how to teach. The natural order hypothesis states that language is acquired in a particular order, and that this order does not change between learners, and is not affected by explicit instruction. Mary Beth sent me an interesting
