Distancelanguagelearning/English Web/writing/Academic Writing/class/Unit II/paragraph

Itzel's Group

ESTHERSITA

Who's your target audience? SLA

What is the main idea of your paragraph? implications of krasen´s theory in SLA development.

What are your three assertions? why it is an unconsicious process, the importance of the input, and consequences pros or const.

What sources will you use to support your assertions? books, researches and internet.

How will you cite your support? Direct quote, paragraph? Why would you choose one over the other? by the APA style

the implications of krasen´s theory in SLA development. since a time ago there have been many theories that try to explain the language learning process, so that, it is important to retake the implications and to expire all the pros and const to the Krasen´s theory. However, is this theory totally objective and realible? is the input the most essential in a learning process?.

reference: http://bnleez.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/academic-paragraph-assignment/

ale tellez

BRAINSTORM

second language acquisition

about krashen's theory

input has to be meaningful, the acquisition has to be uncounsicious and the affective part has to do with the acquistion

video

paraphrasing

PARAGRAPH

The acquisition of a second language, has to do with having a meaningful input, according to Krashen's Theory in Steve (2008) words. In the theory of secoond language acquistion Krashen did five hypothesis which are:the Acquisition-Learning, the Monitor, the Natural Order the Input and the Affective Filter hypothesis.Acquiring a language, following the presented hypothesis, can help people to acquiring it easier and faster.

Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr64l4FjvBQ&feature=player_embedded

IVAN

Brainstorm

• Who's your target audience? Second language learners
• What is the main idea of your paragraph? The use of the 5 main Krashen´s hypotheses
• What are your three assertions? Learners of a second language do not need to learn all the grammatical rules, individual feelings affect positive or negative the performance, learning a second language is a subconscious process
• What sources will you use to support your assertions? Krashen´s books, the video I watched already.
• How will you cite your support? Direct quote, paragraph? Why would you choose one over the other? Paraphrasing because it´s easier for me to explain it in my own words.

Paragraph

The acquisition of a second language tends to be difficult for most of the people but, since the Krashen ´s hypotheses appeared in context it seems easier to acquire a second language. According to Steve, (2008), Krashen believes in five hypotheses: language acquisition: subconscious process, natural order hypothesis, monitor hypothesis, input hypothesis, affective filter hypothesis. All these hypotheses are arequirement for Krashen in order for a students of certain language to learn.

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Cesar

Brainstorm

• Who's your target audience? Foreign Langaguage Learners and Teachers
• What is the main idea of your paragraph? Language aquisition
• What are your three assertions? Second Language Learners don't need to learn everything to use a language, preferences of the learner can help him to learn faster, second language aquisition is an unconscious process
• What sources will you use to support your assertions? Krashen Ideas.
• How will you cite your support? Direct quote, paragraph? Why would you choose one over the other? Quotes

Paragraph

Second Language Aquisition is an activity that occurs unconsciously in our minds. "Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language, natural communication, in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding." (Krashen, 2003), here we can define that the learning of a second language is not only cuestion of an uncounscious process, the learner should find that meaningful interaction and communication in order to learnm, so for this is necesary to focus on the interest of the students, because in that way we will helping them in their second language learning as they are practicing and understanding a foreign language as they analyze the new infromation.

Krashen, S. (2003). Exploration in Language Acquisition and Use: the Taipei Lecures. Oxford, UK. Heinemann.

LUPITA

BRAINSTORM

• Second Language Acquisition.

• Krashen's Theory.

• Languages all over the world.

PARAGRAPH

A lot of people have been involved in the second language acquisition, the most important thing is that some people have interested in the study of this particular process, for example Krashen. He had proposed five principles that talk about this process. His theory (2003) states that the language is learned unconsciously and with practice and an appropriate monitoring the students improve their own level in the target language. This theory also states that there some other aspects that affects the second language acquisition, like for example the age.

Mariana

Brainstorming

Language theories

Krashen

Input theory

Second language acquisition

subconcious

natural order

Most of the people have the necessity to speak a second language, but what is the best way to do that? One of the most important theories about the second language acquisition is the input acquisition by krashen. This theory said, the students are going to talk in a second language after a certain time of they were exposed to the language. It refers that it would be like the natural way that we learn to talk our mother tongue. The second language acquisition is a subconscious process that has to occur in a natural way. For this reason the teachers have to respect this natural order and not change it. They only have to monitor the grammar and other aspect of the language in their second language students.

Fatty

Brainstorming

Who's your target audience? Students of a second language
What is the main idea of your paragraph? To introduce to the topic, and that the ss of a l2 know the meaning of acquire.
What are your three assertions? Have you sometime think that we learn a second language unconsciously. learning process is acquire or learn?
What sources will you use to support your assertions? internet.
How will you cite your support? Direct quote, paragraph? Why would you choose one over the other? by the APA style

Paragraph

Have you sometime think that we learn a second language unconsciously? Well according to Krashen this is true, and he called this Acquisition of language. He proposed 5 theories about it: The natural order hypothesis, monitor hypothesis, input hypothesis and affective filter hypothesis. Furthermore this, do you think that the learning process is acquire or learn?

CARLOS DE LOERA

Brainstorm

* Who's your target audience? classmates, undergraduared L2 educators

* What is the main idea of your paragraph? to inform about Krashen's hypotheses

* What are your three assertions? Krashen's hypotheses on second language learning

* What sources will you use to support your assertions? video:[1]

How will you cite your support? Direct quote, paragraph? Why would you choose one over the other? Using APA on a video paraphrasing because it easier and it allows me to summarize the important aspects of the hypotheses

Paragraph
According to….. (2008), Krashen’s input hypothesis says that we acquire the language only when we receive meaningful input. As a consequence, we can only acquire the language when we understand the messages we are receiving, this is because the income of the language has significance for us, and as a result, we are able to understand it.

References:
Retrieved from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr64l4FjvBQ&feature=player_embedded

Anabell's paragraph

Brainstorm

• the target audience are teachers and students from the BA in ELT + Krashen and language aquisition
• the main idea is that L2 learners can learn and acquire a second language by using all the methods not unly by one.
• We learn uncounsciously. We acquire language in unpredictable order. To teach in a natural order that is not the teaching order.
• Video, Krashen's ideas from his books
• Paraphrasing

Paragraph:

The learning of a second language is important for the world today. I t has been argued that learning and acquistion are an important part in the teaching languages area. Some theorists believe and agree that the language is not learnt; they think it is acquired. Krashen is one theorist that believe in this fact. He argues that the languages are acquired uncounciously, that we do not know that the language is happening in us. For that resaon he believes that the order in we acquire the language follows no order because we acquire in the way we use it. and Finally he states that the best way to acquire the langauge is teaching it naturally.

References:
Retrieved from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr64l4FjvBQ&feature=player_embedded

Laura

Brainstorm

Krashen and language aquisition

second language

language aquisition/learning

unconsiously

natural order hypothesis

monitor hypothesis

input hypothesis

aquisition

how brain learns

understand message

CARO

BRAINSTORMING:

• Psychology for language.
• How languages are learnt?
• Foreign Language Education.
• Education in Language Acquisition and use.
• Five prionciples of language acquisition.
• Language acquisition is a subconcious process.
• We are not aware when learning is taking place in our lives.
• The Natural order hypothesis. We learn in a predictable order.
• The natural order is not based on simplicity and complexity.
• The natural order can not be changed.
• The natural order is not the teacing order.
• The monitor hypothesis.
• The input hypothesis: we learn when we understand messages.
• We learn from a lot of meaningful input.
• Talking is not practicing.
• The affective hypothesis.
• MAKE PEOPLE BE ATTENTIVE WHEN ACQUIRING A NEW LANGUAGE!!! That's the key word!

PARAGRAPH

Krashens has stated that language acquisition is a subconscious process, and we are not aware that we are acquiring things at the moment of learning but this clearly appear later when we use that knowledge. There are five principles or hypothesis that Krashen describes and they are: The Acquisition-Learning hypothesis, the Natural order hypothesis, the Monitor hypothesis, the Input Hypothesis, and the Affective filter hypothesis. Summing up all the information read about the five hypothesis, it may be stated that the most valuable hypothesis is the one that talks about the Input hypothesis to make sure you have rules on mind, structures and you have to be attentive to what you are learning to achieve a good language acquisition process!!

REFERENCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr64l4FjvBQ

Ben's Group

Luis Ángel Carro

Nowadays, linguistics are more commonly studied because more people is receiving and applying several benefits derived from this. A second language is required on order to get a better job, to travel on abroad, to go to another school and to know more culture. However, there are certain processes that learners are not quite aware of such as; the unconscious phenomena that involves Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Krashen is the most important researcher who has been studying this phenomenon for many years. He states that "Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill." (Krashen, 1987) It means that acquiring a Second Language is unconscious, learners do not need to memorize by heart all of the grammar rules concerning the foreign language he is learning, but he just have to be relaxed and enjoy learning.

According to Krashen (1987); "The best methods are therefore those that supply 'comprehensible input' in low anxiety situations, containing messages that students really want to hear. These methods do not force early production in the second language, but allow students to produce when they are 'ready', recognizing that improvement comes from supplying communicative and comprehensible input, and not from forcing and correcting production."

Knowing Krashen's theory raises awareness among Second Language Learners in order to understand the unconscious processes that take place when acquiring a foreign language. Krashen also says that "In the real world, conversations with sympathetic native speakers who are willing to help the acquirer understand are very helpful." This is why more people is receiving benefits from linguistics nowadays because since meaningful and real language communication is held, Second Language Acquisition will take place in a natural way.

--Lcarroperez 14:12, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

REFERENCES

Retrieved from: Schütz, Ricardo. "Stephen Krashen's Theory of Second Language Acquisition." English Made in Brazil <http://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash.html>. Online. 2 de julho de 2007.

Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr64l4FjvBQ&feature=player_embedded Krashen, S. (2003) Explorations in Language Acquisition and use. Portsmouth: Heinemann

Alma Cardona

Linguists all around the world are in a constant search for the best way in which people learn languages. Nowadays, Krashen’s five hypotheses is a theory that has caught a lot of attention in the linguistic field. Through these five hypotheses, Krashen (2003) states how second languages can be acquired in specific ways, and with different pedagogical tools. They also deal with matters of age and the importance of being susceptible for a new language. Krashen (2003) named his hypotheses: The acquisition-learning hypothesis, the natural order hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the input hypothesis, and the affective filter hypothesis.

References: Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr64l4FjvBQ&feature=player_embedded Krashen, S. (2003) Explorations in Language Acquisition and use. Portsmouth: Heinemann

ALE RIVERA

For many years different linguists have been concerned of how languages are learned and they have proposed diverse theories and elements they consider are involved in the language learning process.

Therefore, Krashen, a renowned linguist, has proposed five principles that he obviously consider strongly linked with the language acquisition. Krashen’s (2003) theory states that language is learned unconsciously and that monitoring helps learners to improve the use of the language. He also assumes that comprehensible input is required so that learners can use the language accurately. This means that conversations with native speakers will help learners to understand messages and to become aware of how language is used for. The model Krashen proposes has to do with the natural way in which people learn their first language since the rules of language are acquired in a predictable order and affective factors become relevant during the language learning process. So he considers language acquisition a subconscious process.

Finally comprehensible input is necessary in order to acquire the language, so probably further researches can be conducted to determine if understandable input is quite essential for learners to acquire a language in a natural way in order to use the language accurately.

References

Krashen, S. (2003). Exploration in Language Acquisition and Use: the Taipei Lecures. Oxford, UK. Heinemann.

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--Ale Rivera 22:14, 23 September 2010 (UTC)