VIP Class Notes (Tony) [S]

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Vocabulary

Capital (Uppercase) / Lowercase – large or small letters.

eg: You should always use a capital letter for names.

One

A couple – about 2

eg: Can you wait a couple minutes.

A Few – some (usually positive)

eg: I know a few people in Beijing.

eg: A few tired.  A little tired.

few – not many (usually negative)

eg: There were few people at her party, so she was sad.

Free Range – usually for chickens, that can run around an open field. Supposed to be healthier to eat.

eg: Some people really care about how their food was raised. They prefer meat from free range animals.

Run-On Sentence – too long and confusing sentence

eg: Try to avoid run-on sentences.

Immersion – the state of being completely surrounded by something

eg: Language immersion is the best way to learn.

Language input theory, created by Krashen since 1985, is a very important theory in the field of second language learning and acquired substantial attention from second language learners. Krashen also pointed out that language could only be learnt on condition that language learners expose themselves to sufficient language input, and most importantly this input needs to be based on “i + 1” hypothesis.
“i + 1” is a comprehensible language input hypothesis, meaning that language could be acquired by comprehensible and adequate language input. He gave this kind of input a condition of “i+1”, in which “i” refers to learners’ current language knowledge level or capability. And based on the “i”, learners need to be exposed to a comprehensible input environment, which includes and only includes one or little new knowledge point.
If learners only have access to language input of “i+0”, meaning no new knowledge input, it will become impossible to improve their language capability. In the contrary, if learners get to input of “i+n”, which contains too much new and unknown knowledge point, it will be impossible as well to acquire new language knowledg because this kind of input is neither comprehensible nor processable for them

Language input theory, created by Krashen and continuously improved since 1985, is a very important theory in the field of second language learning and has acquired substantial attention from second language learners. Krashen also pointed out that language could only be learnt on the condition that language learners expose themselves to sufficient language input, and most importantly this input needs to be based on the “I + 1” hypothesis.
“I + 1” is a comprehensible language input hypothesis, meaning that language could be acquired by comprehensible and adequate language input. He gave this kind of input a condition of “I+1”, in which “I” refers to learners’ current language knowledge level or capability. And based on the “I”, learners need to be exposed to a comprehensible input environment, which only includes one or few new knowledge points.
If learners only have access to “I+0” language input  , meaning no new knowledge input, it will become impossible to improve their language capability. On the contrary, if learners get overwhelmed with input which Krashen refers to as “I + n”, which contains too many new and unknown knowledge(adj) points, it will be impossible to acquire new language knowledge. Because this kind of input is neither comprehensible nor processable for them.