#008: The Groundbreaking Approach to Language Acquisition /w Award-winning Prof. Stephen Krashen

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March 30, 2020 • 87 mins

If you‘ve ever tried or are learning a language and haven‘t heard of the award-winning Prof. Krashen and his theory on second language acquisition, then you‘re in for a real treat and this episode will certainly blow your mind with things you probably haven’t heard yet - and you’ll likely get addicted to language learning.

To answer some of the following questions, I talk to Prof. Stephen Krashen, one of the most prolific and most frequently cited scholars in the field of language education:

Why language learning is still largely ineffective and hasn’t fundamentally improved over the last decades
How Krashen’s theory about language acquisition, despite it being over 40 years old, remains groundbreaking
Why you can‘t learn a language by simply speaking it, contrary to popular belief
How he can boldly claim that everyone acquires language in the same manner
Why language learning is a subconscious process that can‘t be „turned off“
Why there’s a strict separation between language acquisition and learning and why consciously learned language can only be used to monitor language output, but never be the source of spontaneous speech
In which particular order language is acquired and why that order does not change between learners and is also not affected by explicit instruction
Why learning grammar does not improve language acquisition
Why it‘s simply not true that children acquire languages more easily than adults and provide overwhelming scientific evidence to back up this claim
How to apply his theory in practice
And finally, discuss the most powerful tool we have in language education

Show Notes, Transcription, & Resources Mentioned: gammabeyond.com/en/podcast/008

Podcast Website: www.innovationalcorrectness.com

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