Against Comprehensible Input: The Input Hypothesis and the Development of Second-language Competence.

White, Lydia

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Publication Date: 1987

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Against Comprehensible Input: The Input Hypothesis and the Development of Second-language Competence.

White, Lydia

Applied Linguistics, v8 n2 p95-110 Sum 1987

Discusses several objections to Krashen's Input Hypothesis which states that language acquisition is the learners' understanding of a language at a stage slightly higher than their current one because of their understanding of extralinguistic cues of the language. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Child Language, Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Learning Theories, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Syntax

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Language: English

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