CTET Language I — practice by topic

1. Krashen separates two ways of developing a language. 2. One is natural, intuitive and subconscious, much like a child picking up a mother tongue. 3. He named this process **acquisition**; the other, conscious way is called learning. **Why not the others:** Monitoring is the checking of output with learned rules, and memorisation and translation are study methods, not the subconscious process. _Source: Wikipedia, "Input hypothesis", section "Acquisition-learning hypothesis" (revision 1380165607)_

1. Krashen says there are two independent ways to develop language skills. 2. The conscious one, as in school, stores language forms as rules and grammar and often involves error correction. 3. He calls this conscious process **learning**; the subconscious one is acquisition. **Why not the others:** Acquisition is the subconscious route. The affective filter and the natural order are other hypotheses, not names for conscious knowledge. _Source: Wikipedia, "Input hypothesis", section "Acquisition-learning hypothesis" (revision 1380165607)_

1. The input hypothesis says learners progress when input is slightly ahead of where they are. 2. Krashen labels the learner's current stage "i" and the next stage "+1". 3. So "i" is the learner's present language level, not age, class, marks or word-list size. **Why not the others:** Age, class, test marks and word-list size are outside measures; "i" is the learner's own interlanguage, meaning present language level. _Source: Wikipedia, "Input hypothesis", section "Overview" (revision 1380165607)_