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Date Posted: 15:29:46 06/06/03 Fri
Author: ADAO FERNANDEZ
Subject: TASK 5

TASK 5: ADAO FERNADEZ

THE FRACTAL MODEL


All the teories read during this week are interesting and valid, because they can serve to explain not just the second language acquisition, but also they can be used as strategies to allow ourselves become critics of our own conscious as teacher.


Paiva`s text can be considered a reflection about the many theories about acquisition models. The author of the text Fractal Model, give us a very good and condensed essay about all theories that involve the process of learning and acquisition of a new language. Otherwise Krashen’s text is a brief description of the well accepted theory of second language acquisition. The two texts can differ in form, but not in content. In my opinion, both texts were quite important to comprehend the Krashen model and other theories of acquisition of a second or foreign language. Krashen reviews the fundamental of second language acquisition theory. According to him, Acquisition occurs when comprehensible input in the target language is available. Krashen argues also, that we acquire language by understanding language that contains structure a bit beyond our current level of competence through the help of context or extra-linguistic information.

In conclusion, the main points of Krashen theory is the distinction between learned and acquired knowledge. The two are distinct kinds of knowledge, because as Krashen said Acquisition is relatively painless process, because we can acquire language and then unconsciously work out the grammar, otherwise Learning is a conscious process, that requires specific effort directed towards the analysis of the target language.

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