CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Krashen, acquisition is a subconscious process ‘While learn-ing is conscious. Although both play a role in developing second-language competence, acquisition is far more important, since the competence developed through it, is responsible for generating language and thus ac-counts for language fluency.

Detailed explanation-2: -Acquisition is a subconscious process where we are not aware. We are unaware of the process as it is happening and when the new knowladge is acquired. This process is similar to the process that children undergo when learning their native language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today we’ll take a look at some of the hypotheses behind this theory. His Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis suggests that language learning is a conscious, active process that teaches the rules of a language, whereas acquisition is a subconscious process more akin to how children learn languages.

Detailed explanation-4: -Students learning a second language move through five predictable stages: Preproduction, Early Production, Speech Emergence, Intermediate Fluency, and Advanced Fluency (Krashen & Terrell, 1983).

Detailed explanation-5: -Children acquire language through a natural, subconscious process during which they are unaware of grammatical rules. This happens especially when they acquire their first language(s). They repeat what is said to them and get a feel for what is and what is not correct.