Key Terms: hěn è 很饿 = very hungry
gěi Joy mǎi 给Joy买 = buy for joy
hěn 很 = very
xǐ huān 喜欢 = to like
è 饿 = hungry
kāixīn 开心 = happy
gěi 给 = for/to give
mǎi 买 = to buy
miàntiáo 面条 = noodles
hànbǎobāo 汉堡包 = hamburger
ma 吗 = question particle
shéi 谁 = who
shén me 什么 = what
shì 是 = yes/is
bù / búshì 不/不是 = no/isn’t
- "Can we change the order of acquisition?"
- "NO. Krashen’s books have examples of order of acquisition. More recently, Lightbown and Spada (2013) reiterate Krashen’s contentions, showing how acquisition order of verb forms (in English-learning children) is fixed. Wong and VanPatten (2003) make the same point. There is very little we can do to “speed up” acquisition of any “foreign” grammar rule (e.g. English speakers learning the Spanish subjunctive) or vocabulary, other than providing lots of comprehensible input that contains the rule in question."
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Researches supporting the effectiveness of Comprehensible Input teaching:
Comprehensible Input simulates how children naturally acquire their native language.
I adopted the approach of Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) from Dr. Terry Waltz, who is a Chinese teacher and TPRS guru. TPRS is developed by the work of Dr. James Asher and Dr. Stephen Krashen.
"Human acquires language in only way - by understanding messages, or by receiving comprehensible input, and learner's improve and progress along 'the natural order'."
--- Stephen Krashen
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