Stephen D. Krashen's experiment (Homework)

 In this article, Stephen D. Krashen explained reading is very helpful for the development of literacy in both first and second languages, but many people do not do it for three reasons.

First, many second language acquirers believe that learning rules and output practice is better. Second, they think reading is hard work and want to acquire easy processes. Third, many texts are not interesting, but comprehensible or reliable and may interesting, but not comprehensible.

So, he did an experiment to prove his hypothesis that if we gave adult second-language students the right texts, we would see more free reading and clear progress in second-language acquisition. The four people, Mi-ae, Su-jin, Jin-hee, and Alma cooperated in this experiment.

As a result, the amount of reading was quite different depending on their initial English skill and used a dictionary or not during the experiment, but they all got big vocabulary growth while I couldn't see Alma's data so clearly.

From this result, his hypothesis may be proved. However, he also said all second language learners will be interested in book reading, so we can use other options for learning which is a comprehensible and compelling one.

Comments

  1. HadashiMay 9, 2023 at 3:42 PM

    He didn't do his own experiments, but he read over the research of others. He does meta-studies.

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