Name: The myth of input | How NOT to learn a language
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knows that there are a million different learning systems

and a million different people trying to sell them to you

But after a while you will probably notice  one idea that everybody seems to believe in  

Sometimes entire learning programs are based

and on the idea that input is the only thing

The main reason this idea is so powerful

Stephen Krashen, who is often viewed as a  legendary figure in the world of language learning

He proposed the input hypothesis back in the  1970s and his ideas have been enormously popular  

and very influential on the world of  language learning during the last 50 years  

is that we acquire language in only one way,

Most people call that comprehensible input

We don't acquire language when we study it

We don't acquire language when we memorize lists of verbs, etc

We don't acquire language when we get corrected

All those things, like grammar, vocabulary, are the result of getting comprehensible input"

There's just one little problem with the input hypothesis

because I am talking about a person that is highly respected

But I truly believe in the principle of error correction

created by the great sociolinguist William Lebow

who said that "a person who becomes aware of an idea

with important consequences that has errors,

has an obligation to talk about those  errors with the widest possible audience" 

and because i think that the input hypothesis

has errors and negatively affects millions of people

What exactly is the problem with the input hypothesis?

The first problem is that the hypothesis  can immediately be shown to be false  

by a specific, but very common group  of people, called receptive bilinguals  

They are people who have a highly proficient  understanding of language

and the parents continue to speak the language

of the old country, but the children will  adopt the language of the new country

and in that situation, it's common that  the children will be able to perfectly  

understand the language of their parents, but  will have a varying ability to express themselves  

Now, you cannot argue that these children are  not receiving comprehensible input

and not only is it comprehensible, but it is meaningful

It is input from their own parents about their own life

yet some of these children cannot speak  or write the language of their parents  

And this is just one example  of asymmetrical bilingualism  

In fact, in general, bilingualism is misunderstood

that people who speak two or more languages

And even though this is a well-known fact

for some people, who want to honor their parents

But the fact that people do not have equal  abilities in all their languages

because I know something that everyone knows

to talk about why this obsession with input is so dangerous

because it doesn't explain the full story

and I think, mainly, it's a problem of definitions

One, what does it mean to acquire a language?

Okay, so first, what does it mean to acquire a language?

if you define knowing a language as being able to comprehend it

then I suppose that the input hypothesis is correct

But that is hardly what most language learners want

It's not an accident that people call themselves

when they talk about their language abilities

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