Carol sent this. It makes Krashen’s case against early speech output that much more compelling by substantiating the fact that the mind is always busy processing what it hears and trying to turn it, over years, into speech output, and doing so via the unconscious mind.
The key thoughts here is the “over years” part and the “unconscious mind” part. Teachers who do not appreciate the complexity of the almost divine process of speech formation would try, have tried, to force words from their students too early, thousands of hours to0 early. What a colossal error!
Here is the link from chill:
Directly bearing on this article is this one from Bob Patrick published here last May:
https://benslavic.com/blog/2013/05/17/unconscious/
Key points in that article include:
…the brain processes syntactic information implicitly, in the absence of awareness….
…teach grammatical rules implicitly, without any semantics at all, like with jabberwocky. Get them to listen to jabberwocky, like a child does….
