Krashen's ‘monitor model’

Krashen observes that the natural order is ………….. of the order in which rules have been learned in language classes.

• Independent

• Dependent

This means that learners acquire grammar structures in a sequence that is influenced by the second language and individual factors.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

first language is correct

Most of Krashen’s original evidence for this hypothesis came from:

• The “morpheme studies”

• The communicative language teaching

• The natural order

How many ways to develop linguistic competence?

• 5

• 4

• 3

• 2

Krashen asserts that one acquires language in only one _____ exposure to comprehensible input.

• way

• way-by

• method

• traditional method

If the input contains forms and structures appropriate for the learner’s current level of competence in die language, then both comprehension and acquisition will occur.

• True

• False

While he acknowledges that some people who are exposed to extensive comprehensible input _____ (1 or 2 words) achieve high levels of proficiency in the second language.

When easy-to-understand input is available, learners will:

• be confused

• easily succeed

• lack success

The ‘affective filter’ is an imaginary which ……… learner from acquiring language from the available input.

• allows

• prevents

…….. refers to such things as motives, needs, attitudes, and emotional states.

• Affect

• Affective

• Affection

• Affecting