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Date Posted: 14:24:23 06/06/03 Fri
Author: Andréa Ferreira Viola
Subject: Task 5

COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
Student: Andréa Ferreira Viola
Teacher: Vera Menezes

Task 5: Compare the two texts and

Krashen’s theory:

Krashen’s theory is based on five hypotheses:
A) The Acquisition-Learning hypothesis: the acquisition of a language requires meaningful interaction in the target language. The “learning” is the product of formal instruction and is less important than “aquisition”.
B) The Monitor hypothesis: the aquisition system is the utterance initiator, while the learning system performs the role of the ‘monitor’ or the ‘editor’. The ‘monitor’ acts in a planning, editing and correcting function.
C) The Natural Order hypothesis: the aquisition of grammatical structures follows a natural order which is predictable.
D) The Input hypothesis: the learner improves and progresses along the natural order whe he/she receives second language ‘input’ that is one step beyond his/her current stage of linguistic competence.
E) The Affective Filter hypothesis: a number of affective variables play a fal]cilitative, but non-casual, role in second language acquisition. These variables can be: motivation, self-confidence and anxiety.

Vera Menezes’ fractal model of language acquisition says that language learning cannot be explained by laws of cause and effect and that systems are complex, non-linear, dynamic, chaotic, unpredictable, sensitive to initial conditions, open, subject to attractors, and adaptive. She says that the fractal structures change their places all the time, exchanging knowledge between them. The model proposed here applies equally to L2 as to foreign language acquisition.

In my opinion, Vera’s model is a very good one because of the way of learning this model accepts. And I agree with her when she says that ‘learning moment’ cannot be predictable (everybody is different and the ways to find out the ‘learning way’ are also different).

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