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Krashen, Stephen – System, 1998
Discusses the comprehensible output (CO) hypothesis, which states that we acquire language when we attempt to transmit a message to a conversation partner, fail, try again, and eventually arrive at the correct form of the utterance. Examines weaknesses of the CO hypothesis in second language acquisition, suggesting that providing more…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Linguistic Input
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Krashen, Stephen D. – System, 1996
Proposes implementing the technique of narrow listening to advance second-language learners' comprehension of casual talk. This activity requires a native-language speaker to digress on tape on a familiar topic of interest to the learner so that the learner can listen to the native speaker both in person and later via the tape as often as he…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Classroom Techniques, Listening Comprehension, Listening Habits
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Mason, Beniko; Krashen, Stephen – System, 1997
Overviews three experiments exploring the value of extensive reading in English as a foreign language for college students in Japan. Notes that in extensive reading, students do self-selected reading with minimal accountability, i.e. writing brief summaries or comments on what they have read. Findings reveal extensive reading to be superior to…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Nikolov, Marianne; Krashen, Stephen – System, 1997
Compares children who studied English as a foreign language in Hungary with a communication/content-based approach to similar children who studied English with a form-based traditional approach. Findings reveal that the former were slightly more accurate in their production of grammatical morphemes in an oral interview and were more fluent. (three…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Kim, Haeyoung; Krashen, Stephen – System, 1998
In this study, performance on Author and Magazine Recognition Tests were found to predict second-language vocabulary among high school English-as-a-Foreign-Language students in Korea. Reported free reading in English was also related to vocabulary development, but the effect of the author and magazine recognition tests was independent of free…
Descriptors: Authors, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High Schools
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Krashen, Stephen; Kiss, Natalie – System, 1996
Presents Dr. Kato Lomb's conclusions about language acquisition, which agree with current theory: comprehensible input is central; grammar plays a peripheral role in language development. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Learning Strategies, Linguistic Input