Went to a talk of his at CABE in San Diego in 1996 or 1997. Very funny and I agreed with everything he had to say. Still enjoy listening to him, I just wish the educational establishment would listen and implement his advice. Give students books that interest them and then stand back.
And yet (California) school districts still torture students by forcing them to read stuff they are uninterested in, rather than give them time to read something they like. It's all about prepping for the test.
If you feel like Googling it, the first paper mentioned is: Warwick B. Elley and Francis Mangubhai "The Impact of Reading on Second Language Learning" Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 53-67 (15 pages).
My best students (I teach Taiwanese kids from age 4 - 17) are all readers. One boy’s dad made him read for 2 hours a day - often books that he couldn’t understand as a 10 year old. Now he’s completely proficient. I must add that my school immerses kids from age 2, so one would assume all the students should be fluent by the time they’re 8. But that’s not the case - the readers are the ones who outperformed the rest.
Also, my best 10th graders attribute playing online games and chatting to people around the world as the single biggest aid in their acquisition of English. Another says that she only watches English RU-vid videos. They’re in a country where English is a foreign language (not a second language), yet they’re completely bilingual.
Find something to read about a subject you like or have an interest in. It can be anything, interviews with a musician or artist in your target languages whom you're interested in, for example
@@vishnu2407 thank u for reply! Interesting suggestion) By the way, do u believe we can improve or create any speaking skills via reading? I personally think it is a matter of practice and general comunicative competence even in your L1
@@Denis-fg8hi Partly. Reading will increase one's vocabulary and improve syntax. However, speaking is more than that, such as pitch, tone, pace for example.
@@Denis-fg8hi steve Kaufman (another believer of the theory) has learned over 10 languages from just comprehensible input, he does not start speak but gets a ton of input, overtime you should be able to speak the language as a result of having tons of input (and by a ton of input I'm sure its more than 1000 or even more) feel free to correct me if I got something wrong but this is what I understand.
Excuse me, Prof. Krashen, but how can you deny that the more often we use a grammar rule correctly, the more effortlessly it will come to us? Whether it's a grammar rule or a simple piece of vocabulary, practice and repetition are both fundamental to our ability to recall them at will. Can you really not understand this or do you not want to understand this because it would damage your reputation? There is absolutely nothing wrong with combining the comprehensible input hypothesis with the skill building approach. Why consider them as mutually exclusive?
By reading and listening to conversations, we implicitly practice the grammar rules. Repeatedly. Consistently. I have been teaching Taiwanese kids for the last 13 years, and can say with certainty that the four year olds who just spoke and read (instead of learning) are now fluent and bilingual 17 year olds. The kids that focused on ‘learning by repetition and practicing’ lost motivation at some point, and never overcame the hurdle.
@@colinoswald2 That's exactly the point - four-year-olds do but adults don't, otherwise you wouldn't have immigrants iwho have been in foreign countries for decades throughout the world who cannot string a sentence together without making mistakes.
@@TheHaining You are absolutely right. People immigrate under the impression 'when you live there, you'll pick up the language' and they end up saying a few scattered words here and there but will never go far. So, if we're talking about languisitic competence, literacy, nuances of language, that is just NOT the way to do it. The environment gives you only things you do understand. The point is, as Krashen himself puts it, you acquire language as long as things are comprehensible. That is when you land in a country whose language you barely understand, how on earth are you going to reach fluency? Those benefiting the most from the environment are those already above the intermediate, as they are capable of recieving much more input.
@@TheHaining In my opinion, however, practice might work effectively when the structure or the vocabulary item has been internalized by numerous encounters (mostly when unaware of it). That is when the learner already has a FEEL of it and how it works-- I am seeing this both in my studets of English as well as in my own learning German and Italian.
I straight up think we go to RU-vid like a weird new type of reading... But it's not reading... It's like, standing in a town-square and listening to the town-cryer?
10:55 "In order for comprehensible input to work, the input has to be interesting. People have to pay attention to it." This is such a good summary of what it is. 20:32 where FVR research starts 23:14 my favorite research is presented (the research that inspired me to read and eventually reading over 120 Japanese kids books).
The audience seems predominantly female, but I could just be guessing that from one shot of the audience I just saw. If that is the case, I wonder why. I wonder if men are just not interested or think they aren't interested in this kind of stuff. Also, I LOVE Stephen Krashen!
Reading also helps you find typos and learn about punctuation, as in the errors in the heading: NationAl Reading Campaign - Why Reading is good for you.
yes you are right reading is the solution and the way for acquiring a second language. I have done it as you said Dr Krashin I have read more than 2000 hours it's really helped me acquire the English language in one year and half from 4.5 to 6 in IELTS . I'll keep reading until getting 7 actually i enjoy what i read.I don't study the language I just read books that I interest in . it's easy isn't it
i started reading english books 9 months ago actually i am experimenting his hypothesis. i will do the IELTS in August to see the results. i read 8 hours a day and actually i am enjoying. i have read 60 graded books , hurry potter 7 books the hoppet and the lord of the rings, 20 nun fiction books 25 magazines and i am continuing. last see the results by the way i'am IRAQI so my native language is Arabic. thank you so much doctor Krashin. I hope you are right because my future depends on your accuracy .
