The Natural Method

Hi ....
What about the Natural Methos? Well this Methos was developped by Trayci Terrel and Krashen, in this theory they combined a comprehensive second language acquisition theory with a curriculum for language classrooms. he Natural Approach is very appealing – who wouldn’t want to learn a language the natural way, and what language teacher doesn’t think about what kind of input to provide for students.First is the Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis, which makes a distinction between “acquisition,” which he defines as developing competence by using language for “real communication” and “learning.” which he defines as “knowing about” or “formal knowledge” of a language . This hypothesis is presented largely as common sense: Krashen only draws on only one set of references from Roger Brown in the early 1970’s. He claims that Brown’s research on first language acquisition showed that parents tend to correct the content of children’s speech rather than their grammar. He compares it with several other authors’ distinction of “implicit” and “explicit” learning but simply informs the reader that evidence will be presented later. Into this Theoruy they involucred differents topics like: the Monitos Hypothesis, The Input Hypothesis, The Affective Filter Hypothesis, Curriculum Design. But we can learning more of this in the following link.... http://www.stanford.edu/~kenro/LAU/ICLangLit/NaturalApproach.htm

hello everyone
firstable I like to mention the following :
the natural aproach or direct method was developped in 1880 by Franke a german teacher in USA that his principal objective was the oral comunication in german using the grammar as topic in conversations.
after Krashen and Terrell mentinned that the fluency is important in the develop of this method
this information is because, i found an article about the problems that students of other countries had to learning English in USA
for more information the link is the following:
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/html/155/15550204/15550204.html