On a language teachers’ group, a comment was recently posted to the effect that maybe language didn’t have to be 100% comprehensible, because a young native speaker could go for a long time before asking what a key word meant. Maybe, the poster offered, comprehension could be delayed and still be comprehension? There’s a very […]
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Unknowns and Comprehension
Posted by Terry Waltz on November 1st, 2011
Posted in General, Speaking/Listening 
Tags: Acquisition, Native Speaker, Unknowns 
Comments Off on Unknowns and ComprehensionHow do you learn new words if everything is known?
Posted by Terry Waltz on April 23rd, 2011
On a Chinese-learning forum, a user asked: I understand how CI develops the ability to recognise and produce appropriate structures and functions in a language, but if the input is all known to the learner (in terms of vocabulary used) how does the learner acquire the long lists of vocab needed to actually use the […]
Posted in Methods Tags: Comprehensible Input, Micro-Fluency, Novices, Proficiency, Unknowns 3 Comments »