| Dr. Stephen Krashen's foundational
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| | to what we all went through in acquiring
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| principle in his theory of Second
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| | our native languages. This process is a
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| Language Acquisition is called "The
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| | natural event in which the learner of the
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| Acquisition-Learning hypothesis." In this
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| | language is involved with the actual act
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| idea, a distinction is made in that
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| | of communication and not so much in a
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| wonderfully exciting and gaiety-galore
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| | formal relationship to grammatical
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| world of linguistics and language
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| | structures (the horse before the cart).
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| pedagogy between learning a language and
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| | "The learned system" is a system in which
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| acquiring it. "The acquired system" is
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| | the learner comes into a possession of a
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| the means through which spoken fluency is
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| | lot of information about the language.
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| acquired. I can recall scores of students
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| | Rules of grammar and cold-memorization of
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| who come to Guanajuato, Mexico (where we
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| | vocabulary are the thrusts of
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| live), who have told me they would pay
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| | instruction. It is putting the "cart"
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| any amount of money to have the spoken
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| | before the "horse" and expecting,
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| fluency of a Mexican child being packed
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| | somehow, the cart to pull the horse.
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| off to his or her first day of class in
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| | "Acquisition requires meaningful
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| primary school. It is, after all, what
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| | interaction in the target language -
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| most of those with whom I've spoken are
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| | natural communication - in which speakers
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| after-spoken fluency. Sure, they would
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| | are concerned not with the form of their
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| love to read and write in Spanish but
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| | utterances but with the messages they are
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| they seem to have an instinctive
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| | conveying and understanding." Stephen
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| understanding of what comes first. They
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| | Krashen If what you seek is how to
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| know the cart does not draw the horse.
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| | exegete a text of the target language,
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| They are after the horse and then the
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| | then go for the cart. If what you want is
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| cart. To acquire the target language is
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| | communication in the target language,
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| the result of a process almost identical
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| | then find that horse.
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