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Date Posted: 08:19:39 06/06/03 Fri
Author: Ana Paula Menezes Lima
Subject: Task Five

Task #5

In order to do this task, we were supposed to read Krashen's theory and also Vera's. I read some of my colleagues' texts and I believe that is not merely a matter of chosing one of them and develop arguments to support our decision. I'm poiting this because I believe that Krashen has some interesting ideas about language acquisition so as Veraa. My intention is to highlight the relevant aspects of each one (in my point of view, of course!).
Krashen makes a clear distinction between learning and acquisitio. The former is a "product of formal instruction", a kind of a directed instruction. The latter is an indirected, subconcious process that requires interaction> In Krashe's point of view, acquisition is more important than learning. In his Input Hypothesis, Krashen states that the learner develops when he/she receives an input that is one stage beyond his/her own stage. He also suggests a natural communicative input, because he is aware that not all learners are in the same stage.
It seems to me that Krashen has a good point here, however he is looking to second language acquisition through one isolated perspective and that is why I agree with the Fractal Model proposed by our teacher Vera Menezes. Second language learning is a complex process, many tried to explain this phenomenon. We, as teachers must have a wide view of this process because what might work for one student might no work for the other for a infinite number of reasons including motivation, age, sex, culture and so on. Thus, it is difficult to make some generalization about acquisition. Vygotsky(1998), for instance, sees the interaction as the key to development, so as Hatch (1978). On the other hand behaviorist theory believes that acquisition is related to repeated habits, while Schummann understands L2 acquisition depending on how much learners are inside with the target language and culture.
All these theories are valid as an attempt to explain second language acquisiton, but isolated they seem to be incomplete. Therefore, Vera's suggestion that all these theories and concepts should be together seems to me the most reliable stratagie to teach our students. As human beings are different, they need different ways to teach the same thing. And by the Fractal Model we have an opportunity to combine all these approaches in order to do our best and to give our students the best. There are infinite possibilities to combine these systems that will lead to a certainly more effective way to get our students to the real learning/acquisition of a second language.

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