Krashen's Five hypotheses for English language Teaching. Explained in understandable English.
Hello, my beloved fellow reader, Today, I have tried to explain Krashen's 5 hypotheses for Second Language Acquisitions (SLA). So many of you asked me to write about the theories and applications in English Language Teaching especially Communicative language teaching approaches. Here is the first part of the series. Starts with Krashen's hypotheses. Before we going to start we have to understand what he meant as comprehensible input? how can we do it or approach it? Comprehensible input is the language that is slightly beyond the learner's current level of understanding. According to Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis, it is the key to language acquisition. When learners are exposed to comprehensible input, they are able to figure out the meaning of the language through context, inference, and repetition. This process of figuring out the meaning of language is called "inductive learning." Comprehensi ble input can be found in a variety of forms, including: Li...