This weekend Tina wrote three “proposals” about our work. Here is the first one. It’s about the NT/T1/T2 controversy, which Dr. Krashen is looking at with a microscope this week. So is Dr. Mason looking at it. Both are very supportive of the points Tina is making in this and the next two posts on this subject:
I propose that in the classroom there is no pure NT, it is NT plus T2 (light targeting). T2 is used to make the NT input comprehensible. Pure NT may not even exist in real life. We clarify meaning all the time. Even in simple conversation with a native speaker child we use light targeting.
In an effort to control the dialogue, Terry has come up with terms that make T1 sound optimal. She calls T1 “optimized” input. Conveniently, that is also the name of her website/company. She calls NT + T2 “naturalistic” input. The terms need to be clarified.