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Date Posted: 10:22:17 06/06/03 Fri
Author: Jean Rezendes
Subject: Task 5

I’ve liked the two texts that I’ve read. He first impressions were that in Krashen’s test the learning process is emphasized, as the author tries to point how the knowledge gets inside one’s mind, and that in Paiva’s text what is emphasized is that the knowledge arrive in the mind of a learner by many ways and always in a different way. Also, I can say that Krashen states that the order of the learning process has a chaotic component, and Paiva states that chaos of the learning process has a way to organize itself. To me the texts are complementary.

Some aspects pointed by Paiva called my attention, such as “As with fractal geometry, in a kaleidoscope, for example, there are infinite possibilities of combinations of these parts making up the fractals of the acquisition process. Tiny alterations can cause significant changes, with the effect of a snowball bringing about an avalanche” (Paiva, 2003). Her comparison of the learning process to a fractal model, were the whole is divided in many small parts and these small parts more than just be part of the whole are the whole itself, are an excellent representation of the learning process. Presenting the learning process as a chaotic system she opens many path to be explored by teachers, there is not a formula to teach a second language, instead there are multi forms to learn and each individual build his own path.

Another point interesting to me was the reference to explosions: “A learner remains in equilibrium, for a certain amount of time and suddenly a fast change occurs, showing an advance in acquisition. That is, in learning we have periods of stability followed by ‘explosions’ and change” (Paiva, 2003). This part of the text reminds me of some games (video-games and/or RPGs), where the players conduct the characters through a period of a stability and at the end of a story are awarded with point to develop the characters, and then the explosion.

So, in my opinion the learning process takes place in many ways, always different for each individual. This individual adapts the procedures of learning to facilitate his life, following the strategies that are more suitable to him. He pass by a period of stability, when his knowledge is i and then undergoes a change, an “explosion” that will make his knowledge become i + 1. As he is an individual, he will follow a chaotic learning process, however, imbued with an intrinsic order pertinent only to this individual.

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