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=Stephen Krashen = ==="My work in language acquisition in recent years has been inspired by one central idea. We acquire language in only one way: when we understand messages, when we understand what people say to us, and when we understand what we read. Acquiring language has little to do with memorizing vocabulary lists and learning rules of grammar. It requires only 'comprehensible input' and a low-anxiety acquisition situation. My books attempt to show that this 'input hypothesis' solves many problems in language acquisition research and that the best (and most pleasant) methods are those which provide lots of comprehensible input." ===

-Krashen to //Contemporary Authors//, 2002
==="Reading has a huge role...The kind of reading that seems to be the most effective is reading that is genuinely interesting, or compelling, and the easy way to make sure this happens is to allow students to select at least some of their reading in their second language." ===

-Krashen to //Language Magazine//, 2009
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"A man who knows two languages is worth two men." ~ French proverb