When we employ comprehensible input methods. we create real learning. The process, as Krashen has shown, must be an unconscious one in listening and reading both. In both, movies are created in the mind.
The process becomes conscious and analysis creeps in only when output – the application of input and not its precedent – begins to naturally happen as a result of all the input. Conscious analysis of language is great stuff and vastly amusing, even enchanting, but there must be a rich bed of compost to grow it in.
Therefore, we begin to write because we have read, and we begin to speak because we have listened. It is a process that in my opinion cannot be reversed. When we begin to write and speak, it is a glorious emergence, a pulling into the conscious mind of all of the unconscious input that has preceded it.
The watching of so many movies rated CI in class in the form of stories and reading for at least two years forms the fertile ground for this stately emergence of language. Listening and reading are the good soil, speaking and writing are the plants.