We Focus on the Message
I just made about twenty TikTok videos that all focus on one thing – that we learn languages by focusing on the message and not on the form of the language via worksheets and other clever activities that purport to
Where Did Krashen Get His Ideas? Maybe From Simon Belasco?
Anyone into conspiracy theories will enjoy this post. It raises questions about whether Krashen's work is original. It also completely supports my NTCI concept vs. "targeted" CI. This entry is from 2007. One of my middle school students - "K" -
Krashen on the Grammar-Based Syllabus and Non-targeted Input
A repost from January of 2014. It's good to reflect on this topic from time. In 2013, Steve Krashen said (source below) that curriculum and instruction based on a grammar-based syllabus has the following problems: (a) the Natural Order problem - Krashen
Stephen Krashen’s Theory of Second Language Acquisition
Based on: http://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash.html Stephen Krashen is a Second Language Acquisition researcher and professor at University of Southern California who has been publishing and speaking since the 1970’s. "Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require
Krashen
It's a good idea to revisit the research from time to time. lest we forget our guiding star and go off in the wrong direction. The two articles below summarize the best research I've personally ever read, after a lifetime
Krashen
A follow-up to points made in the previous post: 1. The Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis: Conscious learning about a language, including memorizing and learning and manipulating grammar paradigms, is a separate process in the brain than unconsciously acquiring a language. In order to
Krashen Burn
How's this for an unnecessary and professionally embarrassing website? http://www.angelfire.com/az/english4thechildren/krashen.html
The Idea of Novels is Fading
I just posted this a few months ago here but I am so passionate about the topic that I chose to post it again in case anyone missed it: Going. Going. Gone. The idea of novels is fading. We have worked too
Krashen Summarized
More ammunition (from Diane Neubauer) for talking with admins who need help in understanding CI: Stephen-Krashen-summary-2 Stephen-Krashen-summary-2
L'Art De La Conversation and CI Instruction
This post is from 2009. I republish it here because it is core to the kind of things I want to discuss here in this PLC. It just seems to me odd that if a good conversation is, as it says below, "divorced