Two days ago in an email message Tina Hargaden asked Dr. Krashen:
Q. Is Non-Targeted input less efficient? Someone recently said that with only a hundred hours of class time we need targets and that Non-Targeted work can only exist in a perfect ideal world. I’m wondering if there’s data to back that up.
A. It’s an old argument and a bad one. If I had only one hour I wouldn’t worry about targeting. People who make these statements are worrying about goals and syllabi set by traditionalists, from textbooks. After 100 hours students will be ready to understand a lot of authentic input and can continue to acquire on their own.