Top 31 Stephen D. Krashen Quotes
#1. Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.
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#2. The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.
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#3. Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.
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#6. The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.
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#8. Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.
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#10. Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.
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#14. Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.
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#15. People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.
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#16. If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.
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#17. Older acquirers progress more quickly in early stages because they obtain more comprehensible input, while younger acquirers do better in the long run because of their lower affective filters.
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#19. What immersion has taught us is that comprehensible subject-matter teaching is language teaching - the subject matter class is a language class if it is made comprehensible. In fact, the subject-matter class may even be better than the language class for language acquisition.
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#20. Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.
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#23. Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth!
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#24. Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.
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#25. Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development
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#26. However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.
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