Learning Spanish Part Twenty Four The Acquisition Learning Hypothesis

Dr. Stephen Krashen’s foundational principle in his theory of Second Language Acquisition is called “The Acquisition-Learning hypothesis.” In this idea, a distinction is made in that wonderfully exciting and gaiety-galore world of linguistics and language pedagogy between learning a language and acquiring it.

“The acquired system” is the means through which spoken fluency is acquired.

I can recall scores of students who come to Guanajuato, Mexico (where we live), who have told me they would pay any amount of money to have the spoken fluency of a Mexican child being packed off to his or her first day of class in primary school. It is, after all, what most of those with whom I’ve spoken are after