Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Question 1

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Input hypothesis

______ proposal that ______ ______ results from ______ ______ to ______ ______.

Answer 1

Krashen’s proposal that language acquisition results from sufficient exposure to comprehensible input.

ALL YOU NEED IS COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT

Question 2

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Input

Input is ______ the ______ ______ ______ or ______

Answer 2

Input is all the language I hear or see

Question 3

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Intake

The parts that are ______ to me can become ______ - ______ that ______ ______ ______ ______ and ______.

Answer 3

The parts that are comprehensible to me can become intake - language that I actually take in and process.

Question 4

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Output

Once ______, it has the ______ to be ______ in ______ - my ______ ______ and ______.

Answer 4

Once processed, it has the potential to be used in output - my own speaking and writing.

Question 5

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

What is comprehensible input?

______ ______ ______ or ______ by the ______

Answer 5

Understandable language seen or heard by the learner

Question 6

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Acqquisiton-Learning Hypothesis

______ proposal that ______, ______ learning is ______ from ______, ______ ______, and that the ______ is more ______ for language learning.

Answer 6

Krashen’s proposal that conscious, deliberate learning is different from unconscious, automatic acquisition, and that the latter is more effective for language learning.

Question 7

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Caretaker speech

______ term for the ______ a ______ can use to make their ______ ______, ______ to those used by ______ taking ______ of a ______ _____ (_____, ______, ______, etc.)

Answer 7

Krashen’s term for the strategies a teacher can use to make their input comprehensible, similar to those used by someone taking care of a young child (repetition, redundancy, emphasis, etc.)

Question 8

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Monitor theory

______ refers to the ______ ______- ______ of its own ______ _____ (_____ ______in ______- ______) as the ______, and suggests that it needs to be ______ for the most ______ ______ to take place.

Answer 8

Krashen refers to the mind’s self-consciousness of its own language production (correcting yourself in mid-utterance) as the monitor, and suggests that it needs to be lowered for the most effective acquisition to take place.

Question 9

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Acquisition

It is the kind of ______ ______ that happens through
______ and ______.

Answer 9

It is the kind of language learning that happens through
exposure and immersion.

Question 10

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Learning

a ______ in which the ______ ______ participates and which they ______ see as ______

Answer 10

a process in which the learner consciously participates and which they consciously see as learning

In a classroom

Question 11

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Episode Hypothesis

______ ______ hypothesis that ______ connected in ______ ______ (such as ______) are ______ to learn than ______ studied ______from ______ ______.

Answer 11

John Oller’s hypothesis that sentences connected in coherent episodes (such as stories) are easier to learn than sentences studied separately from one another.

Question 12

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Total Physical Reponse (TPR)

______ ______ to ______ ______ ______ (TPR)

Answer 12

Physical response to make input comprehensible

Commands ask to to understand them

Question 13

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)

______ ______ and ______ ______ by ______

Answer 13

Personalized stories and situations accompanied by gestures

Stories/Controlled Vocab

Question 14

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

What are the beliefs of Natural Approach?

• _____ (_____) is _____ _____ than_____ (_____)
• ______ is ______ by ______ ______, on which the ______ ______ (see Krashen and Chomsky)
• ______ is ______ ______ _____ (_____ ______ ______ ______ and the ______ will ______ out the ______)
• ______ should come only ______ much ______

Answer 14

• Acquisition (unconscious) is more important than learning (conscious)
• Acquisition is activated by comprehensible input, on which the mind works (see Krashen and Chomsky)
• Grammar is best learned inductively (present actual language first and the mind will figure out the patterns)
• Output should come only after much input

Question 15

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Goals for Natural Approach

• ______ of the ______ ______ and ______ of ______ ______ of ______ to ______ ______
• ______

Answer 15

• Reduction of the affective filter and lowering of conscious monitoring of language to promote acquisition
• Fluency

Question 16

Natural Approach (Back to Chomsky): TPR/TPRS

Direct Method

______ that seek to ______ the ______ through ______ ______, ______ ______ in the ______ ______

Answer 16

methods that seek to teach the language through direct input, not explanation in the mother tongue