Linguist and professional researcher joins Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy to discuss comprehensible input, compelling input, and language acquisition.
Stephen Krashen is a professor emeritus who is well-known for his work and research into comprehensible input. He has hundreds of publications to his name and has greatly contributed to the field of language acquisition.
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Episode Overview
Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:
- How a trip to Ethiopia led to Stephen Krashen’s career in linguistics
- How adults go through a predictable language acquisition pattern
- Why we know grammar but struggle to use it correctly, and how to bridge this gap
- What comprehensible input is and why it works
- How comprehensible input differs from compelling input
- Why graded readers are effective resources for language learners
- The power of reading fiction
- How the speaking approach is still a mostly input approach
- Making the shift from input to output
- Accents, and how we’re better at them than we think
- Managing your time with multiple languages
- Romanization and its role in language acquisition
Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy
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