Quotes About Language Acquisition

#1. The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.

Stephen D. Krashen

#2. The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

Stephen D. Krashen

#3. If you really want to be an uncommon leader, you're going to have to find a way to get much of your vision seen, implemented, and added to by others.

John C. Maxwell

#4. I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.

Carrie Coon

#5. Almost all instruction seems to revolve around language ac-(Jermaine spelling now) "q, a-kwi-si-tion acquisition!" ("What that?" I ask. "You know, to get. Language acquisition, to get some language.")

Sapphire.

#6. Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.

Stephen D. Krashen

#7. Everyone is blind in a blank room.

Sofie Alberts

#8. Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

Jean Berko Gleason

#9. Because you cannot study the acquisition or use of language in an intelligent manner without having some idea about this language which is acquired or utilized.

Noam Chomsky

#10. ( ... ) Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.

Steven Pinker

#11. I don't want him to be in my passwords .. I want him for real !

Ritu Singh

#12. It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

Matthew Rhys

#13. 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.

Stephen D. Krashen

#14. To begin again, every failure provides experience and opens the door of opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#15. 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.

Stephen D. Krashen

#16. To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Mark Batterson

#17. In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

Hugh MacDiarmid

#18. The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.

Leonard Bloomfield

#19. When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#20. He studied the orders. "I report in forty-eight hours. Immediate deployment." Zane

Abigail Roux

#21. Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.

Chuck Thompson

#22. A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

James Madison

#23. I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

Tori Amos

#24. This is a revolution not a coup . It is either unconditional surrender or we will take down the garrison

Che Guevera

#25. Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring, 'Mine pot! Mine pot!

Jennifer Egan