Robert continues to adress Sarah’s original questions with some questions of his own:
How do the textbook’s scope and sequence align with the Natural Order of Acquisition?
Since language acquisition researchers (e.g. Noam Chomsky, Daniel Pink, Alice Omaggio Hadley, James Asher, Stephen Krashen, Bill Van Patten, Wynne Wong), while disagreeing on many things, all agree that the single most important element in language acquisition is Comprehensible Input (i.e. understandable and interesting/compelling to the learner), how does the textbook align with this research? As Wong puts it, “A flood of input must precede a trickle of output”; how do the textbook’s scope and sequence insure that students receive sufficient comprehensible input before asking for output?