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Date Posted: 11:20:51 06/06/03 Fri
Author: Geraldo Fernandes
Subject: Task 5

Comparissons between Krashen and Fractal Model

According to Krashen the learning process can be divided into some ‘parts’ which are ‘the Acquisition-Learning hypothesis’, ‘the Monitor hypothesis’, ‘the Natural Order hypothesis’, ‘the Input hypothesis’ and ‘the Affective Filter hypothesis’.
The Acquisition-Learning claims that it is necessary a meaningful interaction with the target language. So, the learn process must be constructed in a way that presents a real meaning for the learner. By having this kind of activity the learner will be able to use the language whenever he/she needs it because the process is based on effective communication so, language will be acquired, or rather internalised. But this acquisition must be guided somehow, I mean the learner needs some instructions in order to better deal with the grammar rules – the Monitor hypothesis.
The Natural Order hypothesis is based on the acquisition of grammar rules as something natural, which follows some predictable steps (although Krashen rejects a grammatical sequence as the goal is acquisition). According to the Input hypothesis the learner will learn when he/she adds one more information upon the ones he/she has already, in other words the learners goes one step away every time he/she receives some external incentive so, if we set that the learner stage is ‘i’ we can better understand the Input theory as (i + 1). Or, in other words, this is the time the learner is, sort of, ‘swallowing’ the necessary knowledge to produce his/her own structures in the target language. And, I am not sure, but I think I can relate this Input hypothesis and the Silent Period that all learner experience when they are beginners.
The Affective Filter is related to the facilities the students present to learn this or that subject on the target language, and it can vary from day by day. This Affective Filter is something the ‘blocks’ the passage of new subject and prevents it to achieve the learners. The factors that can provide such a difficulty could come from a large array such as the emotional ones – anxiety, sadness – or excessive happiness, physical ones as illness, hunger among others.
The Fractal Model seems, to me , goes on the other hand with Krashen’s observations. While this tries to establish rules for the learning process that presents the learners as individual. In this model the main idea is that knowing a language is not only a matter of accumulating information and grammar rules and vocabulary but it is also a question of increasing the ability of creating the learners own structures and manifestations. Another interesting aspect is that as each person reacts in a different way or in a different intensity the input that will perfectly work with one student may not work with other and this clearly shows that the learning process does not admit any formula or rather there are no rules or teaching. That is to say that the learn process is not a predictable thing for it deals with the students mind and with all the factors that exert influence upon it, such as emotion, social condition and so on.
On reading the text I remembered the time I was a child and I used to blew bubbles – I mean the soap bubbles. My point is that when a soap bubble was flying in the air it presents many different and quiet colors, but when another bubble comes to join the previous one this junction provides a great confusion at seems that bubble is reorganizing itself. So I made a connection relating the knowledge the learner had – the first bubble – and the new information that comes and provides a revolution inside the learners mind.




Geraldo Fernandes de Oliveira Filho

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