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Krashen calls the natural, subconscious way of gaining a language:Read the answer and worked solution →Krashen's term for conscious knowledge of rules gained through formal teaching:Read the answer and worked solution →In Krashen's formula "i+1", the letter "i" stands for the learner's:Read the answer and worked solution →According to Krashen, which input moves a learner forward?Read the answer and worked solution →In Krashen's theory, the "Monitor" mainly helps a speaker to:Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these does Krashen require before the Monitor can work?Read the answer and worked solution →The natural order hypothesis says grammar features are acquired:Read the answer and worked solution →Which learner state raises Krashen's "affective filter"?Read the answer and worked solution →What should a teacher do to keep the affective filter low?Read the answer and worked solution →Krashen's "silent period" advice for beginners is:Read the answer and worked solution →For Krashen, fluent speaking is mainly:Read the answer and worked solution →Krashen holds that grammatical accuracy develops best through:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Monitor model, adults progress faster at first because they:Read the answer and worked solution →The Natural Approach to language teaching is based on the ideas of:Read the answer and worked solution →Krashen says the one "crucial and necessary ingredient" for acquisition is:Read the answer and worked solution →The idea of a Language Acquisition Device (LAD) was proposed by:Read the answer and worked solution →The LAD is described as an inborn:Read the answer and worked solution →The "poverty of the stimulus" argument is offered in support of:Read the answer and worked solution →Who wrote Verbal Behavior (1957), explaining language through reinforcement?Read the answer and worked solution →A child who said "gave" now says "gived". The child is:Read the answer and worked solution →Which view stresses talk between a child and knowledgeable adults?Read the answer and worked solution →Language tasks a child can do only with an able adult's help lie in:Read the answer and worked solution →Nativists such as Chomsky say acquisition is guided by:Read the answer and worked solution →Babbling is a stage in which an infant makes speech-like sounds but has:Read the answer and worked solution →Infants typically say their first recognisable words at about:Read the answer and worked solution →In early vocal development, an infant's first form of sound is:Read the answer and worked solution →Repeated syllables such as "ma-ma-ma" are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Mixed syllables such as "ka da bi ba" show which kind of babbling?Read the answer and worked solution →Babbling with adult-like stress and intonation, at about ten months, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →A toddler says "up" to mean "Pick me up". This is:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Krashen calls the natural, subconscious way of gaining a language:

  1. Monitoring
  2. Memorisation
  3. Acquisition
  4. Translation
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Correct answer: C. Acquisition

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)_

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Krashen's term for conscious knowledge of rules gained through formal teaching:

  1. Language acquisition
  2. The affective filter
  3. The natural order
  4. Language learning
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Correct answer: D. Language learning

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)_

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In Krashen's formula "i+1", the letter "i" stands for the learner's:

  1. Present language level
  2. Age and school class
  3. Marks in the last test
  4. Size of word list
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Correct answer: A. Present language level

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)_

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