Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition Part 1 of 2 

"Worst problem with the grammatical syllabus..it's boring." I am glad he pointed that out.

It was the year 2023 when i first listened to this man's methodologies, and several months later after applying his hypothesis in language acquisition, I've noticed my tremendous amount of improvements, not only i speak English with consistency but i also acquired natural pronunciation and accent all because of comprehensible input. Thanks to this man .

I love the ending of this part one clip. "It's boring" This guy is correct. School is boring. I'm having more fun learning Chinese on my own than any class I had in public school.

This guy is amazing he helped me to speak English in 7 months

The one man that actually 'gets it', if only more people could know about Krashen , such a genius

I just realized I've been listening and understanding the whole thing without subtitles. when I went to part two the subtitles jumped on my screen and I was like wait... was I not reading in the first part? truly the power of aquestion

this man is something else, really he is something else, as a teacher, I am so proud of listening to such a brilliant mind in this field

This video ages well. See him know and his theory has yet to be disproven. I was skeptical. I started trying to learn Spanish again this year. And I went the learning route because I didn’t really know any better. Had tried Pimsleur and fell off. It seemed to be missing something for me. I picked up a lot of books on learning Spanish and etc. I did one book completely and it helped with grammatical stuff (I think) but I still can’t let Spanish roll of the tongue after doing all those exercises. Then I ran into Matt vs Japan who immersed himself into Japanese from home (mainly) and became fluent in 2 years. Amazingly fluent. His site and his RU-vid videos challenged how I approached Spanish. And he did what Steven Krashen is talking about. And it shows impressively with Matt. So, I threw away (begrudgingly) my preconceived notions and way of learning Spanish to do it this way. Because the backdrop is my taking French for 5 years and never reached fluency or anything akin to it. I started out like Matt days by simply listening (actively, passively, and background) every chance I got. I am using Gritty Spanish as my medium. There are so many different accents on there from Spain to Argentina with varying dialects. At first go; I couldn’t u detest and much because of the rate, speed, and dialect of which they are speaking. But after a week, things began to change and shift. I began hearing a few words here and there. Then more and more words. I began to hear where one word ends and another begins a little easier. I don’t know all the words. I still have a limited vocabulary, but when I run into the words through reading and text, I get that Aha moment. (One mention...Gritty Spanish gives texts side by side too). I’ve noticed my listening comprehension is growing even if I don’t know what they’re actually saying. But that is changing too. Because I am able to pick out more and more words now, I am starting to break down parts of the conversation meaning. If I keep this up; there is no way I wouldn’t become fluent in this language. Admittedly, all of it isn’t comprehensible to me yet or close to it. But each time, I practice it, more of it becomes comprehensible. This all leads me to believe I this theory of acquisition. The rest will follow. At first, I didn’t think it was going to work because I felt I needed to know vocabulary first. But getting my ear accustomed to the flow, rhythm, sounds, intonation, stresses, rest period and etc of the Target language is key. This seemingly major change is already reaping me rewards and benefits. This is for real yo! It works. People are showing that it does. And I am following it so that I acruallly become fluent in Spanish. It works below the conscious level. Remember at the first go, couldn’t understand anything and now I am hearing a lot of individual words I don’t k ow the meaning to yet, but I am hearing the words. Next I will be understanding the words and finally speaking the words.

Fun fact: Even by watching this video itself, we are acquiring the language!😂

I literally burst out laughing when he said "It's boring" =))

No doubt that acquisition is very important.I believe that the good point about acquiring a language is that a learner do not make an effort in learning a language.

I want to hug this guy. Can’t agree more

I got ecstatic that I found this video here. This linguist is incredibly smart.

Beautiful speech. I love Krashen's theories on LA.

For the last year, I've gone from reviewing grammar structures to exposing myself to lots of reading, listening and watching in my target language. I've definitely felt a big improvement. I do find that I still have to review vocabulary in order for those words to 'stick' during the exposure activities.

"My best friends are grammarians. I love to discuss relative clauses." 🧡

Their improvement in speech comes from listening more things they can understand. If you don't listen to more comprehensible things, your speaking ability will remain the same, it maybe a little faster, but you're not acquiring new things just memorizing old phrases. For example, to be a good writer, you need to write but more important you need to read more, if you don't read more, your writing abilities will remain the same doesn't matter how much you write. Conversations good, monologues no.

This guy is ahead of his time, meanwhile some years ago I had my french teacher telling us to write extensive lists of vocabulary which now I might only know a couple of words which are really similar to my native language words.

This man is simply great

Thank you, Marisa! I have long been searching for this lecture.

Absolutely fascinating

Great video, thanks for sharing I have some of his books that was the first time I actually saw a video of himself. Good stuff. Thanks again!!!!

Thanks a lot !! It was like the lecture I attended when He was in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1992. Fascinating!

Such an intelligent and classy teacher . Love it

This is a great video! It backs up everything Moses McCormick and other polyglots say. Thanks for uploading it.

Awesome! Loved it.

This man is truly amazing

Thanks for the explanation.That really helps out a lot.

This man is amazing

The fact that your ability to speak improves through speaking does not mean that the comprehensible input theory does not hold water. Stephen Krashen is talking about 'acquisition' here and when he says that speaking doesn't help, all he means is that you can speak and but this will not lead to you acquiring language. You need to listen and to read in order to do this. In order to improve your spoken fluency you most certainly need to speak and I can't imagine that Stephen disagree with this.

begs the question - why are our language classes still light years behind?

Oh boy,best ending ever :D great talk

I've read some of this hypothesises and found out it helps..

I love the point it ended at

Krashen at his best.

He is very intelligent.

Both parts together in one playlist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vh6Hy6El86Q.html

thanks for sharing, I am really like this vedeo

It’s not only in my left ear !!! LETSG GOO

Amazing

he has got an amazing argument

Amazing video

VERY GOOD!

Hello! First of all thank you for uploading this, it´s brilliant. I was wondering if you have any further information about this talk, I am currently in the process of writing a thesis to obtain my Bachelor's degree and I´d really like to mention some things about this video (basically I need to cite it). I'd really appreciate your help :) Thank you very much!

I wanna meet him, just once.

But I do "Talking to Myselves a lot", Prof. Krashen. I do it to improve my pronunciation n to strengthen my love for English.

DANKE

Comprehensible input plus repetition in real setting will instill mastery n fluency.

Dr Stephen Krashen has a website where you can freely download all his books and journal articles here www.sdkrashen.com

Can anyone tell me to who or where this interview was given?

Prof. Krashen. I hope u load another podcast on this topic as this one doesn't hv quality vocal. I mean it is unclear.

@utopianistic I think not even Mr Krashen had a copy of it - I know because he told me on Twitter :-)

I'm not entirely against language learning. Learning a foreign language at a beginner's level helps or at least may help but in order to get to a level of mastering a language well, you need to ger to a level of language acquisition. I keep comparing it with steering a car. From a certain stage on, you just don't realize when you change gears for having it interiorized.

He always says the importance of comprehensive input through reseach studies and experience. But I still couldn't grab the way how to do it practically. Can someone please fill in what I am missing?

What are the different types of comprehensible inputs. As an ESL/EFL teacher i want to develop different CI, so help me

My best friends are relative clauses and my wife is a 3rd conditional

na se kala marissa gia to video tou DR. Krashen. Ton exw dei se dialeksi stin ameriki. einai top ston tomea tou.

When was this recorded?

I feel like im watching some lost secret message

Affective Filter

Does anyone know when this video was created?

"i love to discuss relative clauses" hahaha :D, NERD. But i love his scientific thinking.

14:02 "...the worst problem with the grammatical syllabus is that it's boring." Boring people find/make things boring.

What’s comprehensible input ?

2:30 3:00

Who here for AJATT ?

Can someone tell me bout the point?😣

lyric please

people who do not know this man, yeah you missed it.

Hi fam! 🎉 Someone could explain to me what he means when he say comprehensible inputs? Thank you ❤

but he remains silent on the natural order H

ok, so he keeps saying _Comprehensible Input_ over and over again, how it helps in Language Acquisition and it's way better than boring, Grammar drills. OK. Got it. *How?* What does it translate to for someone who's at a low-intermediate level?

When people cared more about science and research

I agree with most of what he says. He is clearly a remarkable linguist. But he does himself a disservice by saying the language acquisition device contains no maturational constraints. If Stephen were correct then it would be easy to prove his hypothesis and simultaneously disprove the critical period hypothesis by merely demonstrating that a post pubescent language-deprived child or adult can acquire a language

I think he is brilliant. However, I disagree with him a bit when he says that speaking is a result of language acquisition and not a cause of language acquisition. I think it can actually be a cause and a result of language acquisition. Certainly, the first part is listening to comprehensible input but when I try to put words together and then say them, they're solidified in my head. The Pimsleur method is proof of that.

It is sad to realize how much money n time has bn wasted on lg acquisition researches on mathematical approach as proposed by the irrelevant Chomsky.

How many languages did he speak? A person can get a Doctor degree in languages but still doesn't go further than the third language...I prefer to listen to people who can speak 10 or more languages (I speak 7 - 5 of which with fluency)

What about pronunciation? If u wanna have a native pronunciation u need to learn how to use those muscles in a way u have never done before. So in a way speaking is also practise

13:30 - eh, that's a bit of a straw man. No teacher is going to spend just one day working on a grammatical tense.

This is too rigid and too sim0listic, I suspect he is drawing conclusions that are not supported by the evidence. I find that speaking to myself in French has helped me improve my accent, vocabulary and expression. Why do you think children babble, then talk to themselves when playing? Without practicing speaking, how do you learn to articulate the sounds and the intonation? If you read a book, according to him you automatically learn the words. How? Mmm, you have pictures, or a dictionary. Does a child instantly learn on looking at the picture? Or is repetition needed? Of course much of what he says is true, comprehensible input is essential. I lived in a French country for two years, I did not learn the grammar, though I could understand people, I could not speak. Thirty years later I started studying, yes learning some grammar, learning words, and hige amounts of listening and my French has improved massively. As I say, I think this video is too simplistic.

It's boring

40 years last. Why we still learning grammar? Why this guy or anyone else hasn't developed any language learning program based on his hypothesis?