The Power of Reading - Stephen Krashen 

The more you read, the more you become proficient in the language. very useful talk

What a wonderful professor, a real teacher who loves what he teaches and who he teaches!

This video made me think of a great organization called Reading is Fundamental. I donate regularly to them. The organization gives new books to children that may not be able to afford them or their parents won't buy them. I think this video has a lot of proof that it works!

This is definitely true, I was barely able to read growing up due to undiagnosed learning issues and an inability to get my eyes to focus on the same place on the page. I'd look down a the page and there was no guarantee that what I'd be reading would be literally on the page. Frequently, it would be a random assortment of the words that were there. So, I wouldn't qualify as completely illiterate, I could still read, I just couldn't count on anything that I wrote or read being an accurate reflection of what was on the paper. I did eventually manage to get over that with a lot of time and patience, but it wasn't until I was in my 30s that I could really read the range of topics that a college educated individual should.

June 10, 2022 The candid, evocative speech; the interwoven humour; the audience inclusion: all impeccable!

That was excellent. Stephen is as amusing as he is brilliant.

Sit down have a nice cup of coffee and read a book with an another language!! Yes I can do these three things. And I like all of those!! Thank you.

I definitely agree that READING is fundamental for getting linguistic and communicative competence

This lecture is wonderful! Really inspiring and educational.

Hi. We produced this video in house when Dr. Krashen paid a visit. It's only available via this channel.

45:40 bilingual, reading...and cofee keeps the brain young

Reading is like planting seeds. Reading is so rewarding, empowering and beneficial. Because the planted seeds have our brain as recipient. Watch your seeds!

Thank you Dr. Krashen!! You are amazing.

I really like the lecture. Thanks to the ones who made it available to watch for us. For the content, as an English teacher, he doesn't say anything new: The more you read, the more you become proficient in the language. However, the way he lectures attracted my attention. His cool style is something other professors should acquire.

Amazing! Never realized how much reading as a child served me

My name is Rosmina Zuchri live in Indonesia. The power is reading very good, your explanation very clear. Thanks.

Very interesting, very true that reading does expand the brain capacity. Thank you very much for researching this and giving a talk on the subject.

Such an informed and humorous lecture. Thanks!

Absolutely amazing, formative, humorous, catchy....

we owe you so much...

Krashen is the GOAT

Thank you professor I am going to write an article on the Reading for pleasure and I want children in my country will learn any language especially English without much effort ❤❤❤

thanks a lot Dr Krashen for your brilliant lecture I really liked it and my thanks extends for the program because it helps me a lot to preparer my classes at University where I teach Didactic as subject for English teachers'trainee

Thank you so much, Dr Krashen, this was so interesting and, if it were necessary, summed up all that Steve Kaufman has taught us at LingQ.

Came here to learn more about the psychology of learning and acquiring information. This is a great speech/lecture. I feel like many of us already have the intuition about the benefits of reading, we're just lazy to experience them ourselves. Hope more people will be reached by this video. I wish the audio was a little louder though. Would love to hear Mr. Krashen's humor more clearly. Heheh. ☺️

This talk put a smile on my face

19:56 - 20:40 on READING

I've heard Dr. Steven Krashen from Effortless English by AJ Hoge. He inspired me to read more.

Very beautiful soul. Thanks you sir Stephen Krashen. I really enjoyed this lecture and I learned: 1. SSR 2. School Libraries 3. Books availability

Great and amazing talk, I wonder if we will have high quality talks in the future

What about audiobooks? I love listening to audiobooks, are they as good? Or is it best to read hands down?

17:11 reading research. 10 months sustain audio reading? Audio lingual; sustain silence reading; share boom experience

Prof Krashen, sir, your talks have changed my life and my whole perspective. I owe you a lot sir. Btw my BA is in English Language and Literature. Blessings!

So Tutu read comics. Me? I owe my love for English and reading to a school activity involving the SRA Reading Laboratory. That is first hand proof to me that SSR works. The best motivator for reading is reading itself indeed. One might say the SRA is reading gamified. I can also attest to the power of school libraries because I loved hanging out there when I was in elementary school. This is such a good lecture and I learned a lot even though it's from 2012 and times have changed.

In this video, Krashen discusses the importance of reading as an example of the comprehensible input. I tried this with my teenagers students, but most of them found it hard at the beginning especially when the encounter lots of new vocabulary. However, this problem quite disappeared when I asked them to choose books that does not have lots of new vocabulary. How about young learners who do not like reading and prefer to keep moving and playing around? How do we motivate them?

Where can I find the study Dr Krashen talks about starting minute 38.40. He talks about the multiple regression analyses. I would like to read the study and use it as a reference in my paper. Thank you so much!

Humans have been around for around 100,000 years and have only had writing for the last 10,000 years, and yet, we managed to do just fine with pictures and the spoken word.

How about for students and teachers who still use the direct/ grammar method even though studies show that alternative methods such as FVR prove to outperform them?

Mind-blowing lecture, couldn't agree more!

thank you, Professor!

Wow he has worked out with Arnold!

He sounds like a grumpy grandpa. LOVE IT

I loved it!!

I read somewhere that kids in Sweden don't start to read until they are seven years old and by the time they are nine, they outperform their counterparts in the UK, who have been reading twice as long as the students in Sweden. It's hard to explain this using the "Comprehensible Input" method, because I learnt to read in the UK and I did so by reading "Compresensible" and enjoyable books. I posit that 'maturity' has a lot to do with a kid's ability to acquire a language using "Cempresensible input".

Hahaha Sweet Valley High one of my favorite to read when I was in High Scholl...

Enjoy this so much!

This take is present By Stephen Krashen about reading, he used a term Free Voluntary Reading FVR and Sustained Silent Reading SSR, the mean reading not the sake of an assignment but the for the sake of pleasure, studies show that student who read fun entertainment performed better in test in terms of grammar, vocabulary and organizing ideas that those who taught grammar.I agree with you that offering the students the opportunity to read what appeals them and attracts their attention is very beneficial and rewarding but this lead the students to stick to one genre, how do you make the students read different genres and keeping them motivated. I think teachers should from time to time oblige students to read certain books, I asked my students to grad of their choice and start to read, the read but complained and gave excusses that the face difficulty in reading such as understanding vocabulary, lack of books in the school library but I offered prized for reading, I mean every student gets a prize when they read , my question is how do I motivate my students to read without offering prizes ? thanks Dr. Steven Krashen for the talk, well presented

The Power of Reading - Stephen Krashen Published on 5 Apr 2012 The COE Lecture Series Presents The Power of Reading by Stephen Krashen For more information on our Language and Literacy Education program, visit www.coe.uga.edu/lle/ The COE Lecture Series is a production of the UGA College of Education The University of Georgia copyright © 2012 Category Cars & Vehicles Licence ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DSW7gmvDLag.html Standard RU-vid Licence NOV 20, 2015

Muchas gracias

It doesn't take a guy with a doctors degree to point ot that the grammar model of language teaching is a dismal failure.

The problem is that you need to already be pretty good in the language to be able to read a book. Am learning russian and there is absolutely no book I can read yet.

Amazing Teacher

interesting... Can you use that 'punished by rewards' concept to eliminate bad habits?

Good lecture from Professor Bernie Sanders 💯

35:50 one positive experiences makes a difference

Thanks for the video. It has helped me in such reading skills

So okay , ph. Dr. Stephen krashen in first I like to say thank you but I have question and I ask you about How we can built up Ability's reading when we can read by understand what we read . I guess that you think when we read should be we guess the meaning of words

I’ve spoken to university professors and they all agree that entering college students lack the proficiency in reading and writing vs those students 20 years ago.

Are you Stephen Krashen?.... I have read about you in my M.A. English syllabus....

Professor Krashen is fantastic!

Where do these videos come from? I would like to know so I can check the credibility and find more of these historic videos 😁

42:00 conclusión: biblioteca

23:30 ;sustained silent reading really works

17:00 Fiji islandés results

31:11 actually, you have to try: book and time AND book, time and tests AND book time and prices.

Thanks for the englısh subtıtles and possıbılıtıes to auto translate ın vıdeo.

Oh man, listening to those Adam Sandler and Bill Cosby references in 2020 was painful.

Do your books have language drills in them or just stories to read. More specifically I am wondering if, by Krashens definitions, you advocate learning or acquiring a language?

good stuff.

Bravo, Stephen Krashen. Keep talking the talk, and walking the walk. You and the USDOE are so out-of-sync--but you are much more in sync with what will help children than the USDOE.

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Books are mostly no longer necessary to learn a language. All my nieces in the Philippines have taught themselves to understand and speak English using RU-vid, even when their parent hardly spoke a word of English.

3 cups of coffee a day? I feel nervous after one cup in the morning 🥲 Thank you sir for such a great talk!

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I agree.

35:00 reading aloud

It starts at 0:41.

Ten years later, yet schools still haven’t changed the way they teach...

Does listening to books count as reading?

38:00 intnl Pearls examination

I did so many ways to learn English but I didn't get my target. It would be helpful me

Awesome

35:00 read out loud

Hi are there any tips to switch from simple books like graded readers to real books. I can read & understand book for English learners all levels but if i try standars book than most of the words are unknown for me. Tried startrek, harry potter, sawyer etc. Can you recommend something more advanced than books for learners but still quite simple to still have fun with reading ? BR

to my knowledge, yes.

How much reading would be enough per day,

2012...!

Hi, I am not native English speaker. Is it possible to add CC, caption? subtitles to the video? Even when it is in English helps a lot. You know, the "Input" is more "comprehensible" in this way.

8:15 reading

38:00 factores forma reading

Great!!!!

I have a question, how blind people get comprehensible input? How they learn the language?

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32:10 41:39 keep brain young

Reading in 2023 ...never heard of it.

Do kids still read books? I love books and see bookstores close right and left. 😢

That was awesome

Can someone tell where I can get of this video? thanks:)

21:35 cree journal

Yes reading is important but knowlege of grammar is important as well. How else is a learner to know tenses, nouns etc.