Here is the link for those who want to watch some video of VanPatten:
learninglanguages.celta.msu.edu/sla-vanpatten
I also include a few points Eric made here as comments after asking Krashen about VanPatten:
One thing I don’t understand is how come VanPatten and Krashen don’t seem to mention each other in their research.
Krashen did write this to me: “Elgort and Van Patten both have students/subjects do extraordinary things to get the same results we get from comprehensible input, with less effort and more enjoyment.”
And Krashen wrote me this a short while back: “VanPatten may have managed to change the order of acquisition… not necessarily a good thing. Maybe there is a good reason some items come earlier than others.”
It would be interesting to me to see how many SLA researchers are aware of TPRS. You hear researchers, like VanPatten, say that SLA findings don’t trickle down to the classroom, but at the same time, shouldn’t the researchers be knowledgeable of classroom methodologies?! It didn’t seem like Paul Nation knew anything about TPRS. And I understand from what Michele is saying, that VanPatten doesn’t know much about TPRS either.