To start Krashen did a warm-up
of his workshop talking about the concept of Comprehension Hypothesis. For
Krashen, one way to acquire is to understand the information. The
Comprehensible input can be as they "How they say" to "What they
say" the canal of this process is the possibility of understand the input.
Krashen explained his point
by starting saying that that The Comprehension Hypothesis and the Skill-based
Hypothesis are rivals. The CH for Krashen provides the learner the opportunity
to develop Literacy and Skills literacy while the SBH worried about the Grammar
and Vocabulary to someday use the language.
Krashen continued his point
saying that for the "Input" to be "meaningful" it is
necessary to be interesting and get Ss' attention. For Krashen one of the main
sources of Input is "Reading". However, for Krashen, a learner should
read freely and for pleasure. Thanks to Free-voluntary Reading a learner can
acquire vocabulary, learn spelling, and reflect on many other issues in the
language.
For Krashen Volutary-reading
and Reading for pleasure involves different issues such as Access to readings
(libraries, internet etc), Massive and autonomous voluntary Reading, appealing
material for the learners to get their attention on. The Power of Reading is
represented by Reading for pleasure not as something mandatory. This concept
makes Reading faster and pleasant. Moreover, it also impedes the Ss’
inclination for easy Reading. Besides, it is important to take advantage that
we are living in a literature age where Young children and youngsters are faced
to books such as "Harry Potter" and "Twilight".
Reading helps to get
language-composition process strategies that lead to good writing and problem
solving. Once more, the connection between Reading and Writing is eminent. So,
according to Krashen from many advantages mentioned here and faced in the
classroom Reading is a powerful tool that we sometimes take for granted, omit,
forget or just let at the end of the teaching process.
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