Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
NATURAL APPROACH
NATURAL APPROACH
S. Krashen & T. Terrel
APPROACH
Nature of Language Learning
Aim: Communicative Competence
Based on
- The Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis
- The Natural Order Hypothesis
- The Monitor Hypothesis
- The Input hypothesis
- The Affective Filter Hypothesis
Nature of Language
Language as a vehicle
Meaning is the essence
Comprehensible input
DESIGN
Objectives & Syllabus
Develop communicative skills
Activities
Comprehensible input in the target language
Teacher role
Speaks only in the target language
&
The Affective Filter Hypothesis
Creates a positive atmosphere
The Natural Order Hypothesis
The Acquisition Learning Hypothesis
Depends on the stage of linguistic development
Learner role
Krashen
Material role
Makes classroom activities meaningful
Krashen
learners' emotional state
The acquisition of grammatical structures
predictable sequence
distinct processes
L2 learners
The Monitor Hypothesis
adjustable filter
Language teaching approach
Acquisition
Learning
the same predictable order
complements the acquisition-learning hypothesis
low affective filter seek and receive more input
Procedure
- Emphasis on comprehensible input
- Minimize stress (Silent Period)
- Gradual progression (to maximize self-confidence)
- Meaningful Communication
- Pair or group work
- Adapted activities
The Input Hypothesis
1983
Limits to success
L2 learners
"Language learning is a reproduction of the way in which humans naturally acquire their native language" by Terrell
Time
Focus on form
Knowledge of rules
Comprehensible Input
CONCLUSION
- Adapted techniques and activities to provide comprehensible input
- Language as a tool for communication
- Language function over Linguistic form
- Meaningful Communication
Natural & Unconscious
simple rules
utterances
based on the context in which they are used