Krashen's 5 Hypothesis

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One of the five hypotheses of Krashen’s SLA theory. In the input hypothesis Krashen makes the distinction between acquisition and learning. The input hypothesis relates to the acquisition of language only. The main feature is the nature of the input, which Krashen stated should be just above their current level of knowledge. Taking their current level as ‘i’ then comprehensible input will be at the level ‘i + 1’.  [Read more]

One of the five hypotheses developed in Krashen’s second language acquisition theory (SLA). Whilst Krashen acknowledged that English language knowledge, such as grammar, did appear to be learned in some order, he noted that this should not be used as a structural basis for teaching.  [Read more]

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  Chantelle details her experience of studying the fifth unit of her online TEFL course with ITTT. In this unit she learnt about classroom management and the different ways you can arrange your classroom and group students according to the needs of the lesson you are going to teach and of the students themselves. The unit also deals with reasons for problem behavior within a lesson and the ways a teacher’s body language can be used to communicate ideas about language as well as to reinforce instructions and requirements of the teacher. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This...  [Read more]

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  So, now we're going to fill the actual procedure of the lesson plan out itself. We mentioned at the start, the first thing we do, is to get some general information about the class that we'll be teaching and then, in order for someone to be able to cover our lesson, we need to present enough information in our lesson plan that they can actually carry it out. What I'm going to do is for each stage of the lesson, I'll indicate what I'm going to do in the lesson and then, we'll cut away from that to have a look to see how that will actually be achieved. So, our lesson is going to be based on a 45-minute lesson and the first phase is going to be the engage phase and it's going to be a straight arrow ESA lesson. I'm going to take approximately five minutes on my engage phase and in...  [Read more]

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(See also under users) Related to Krashen’s Monitor hypothesis, where he suggests three types of monitor user: over users, optimal users and under users. The monitor functions to check what we are going to say against what we know and either allow the thought to be spoken or held back. Under users often are confused in their speech because they did not monitor their thoughts. Over users of the monitor speak erratically because of the time they are using to check their own thoughts before speaking. Optimal users get the balance right.  [Read more]

Related to Krashen’s Monitor hypothesis, where he suggests three types of monitor user: over users, optimal users and under users. The monitor functions to check what we are going to say against what we know and either allow the thought to be spoken or held back. Over users of the monitor speak erratically because of the time they are using to check their own thoughts before speaking. Under users often are confused in their speech because they did not monitor their thoughts. Optimal users get the balance right.  [Read more]

  There are many different types of groups of students that you will encounter when teaching English as a foreign language. This video introduces you to the five different types of student groups. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. This unit helps me identify the different ways of evaluating and assessing students' level. The several tests at different stages. The importance of placement test and diagnostic test. It is also very necessary to often...  [Read more]

Linguistic relativity or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. In this theory the structure and use of our language determines how we view the world and the concepts we create. People with different languages would therefore perceive things slightly differently depending upon how their language is used.  [Read more]

The UG hypothesis suggests that all languages have some underlying similarities which are considered fundamental to language itself (see Chomsky). Noam Chomsky suggested that humans are born with an innate ability to learn languages. His theory posited that exposure to language alone could not account for the fact that almost everyone learns their Native language without formal instruction.  [Read more]

Krashen developed a second language acquisition theory (SLA). Krashen’s SLA theory has a great many advocates and detractors. Perhaps best known in Language education circles for quotes such as; “Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill”.  [Read more]