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: -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-3: -Language acquisition is a “subconscious process identical to the process children utilize in acquiring their first language.” On the other hand, learning a language is “a conscious process that results in ‘knowing about’ [the rules of the] language."

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -The acquisition–learning hypothesis claims that there is a strict separation between acquisition and learning; Krashen saw acquisition as a purely subconscious process and learning as a conscious process, and claimed that improvement in language ability was only dependent upon acquisition and never on learning.