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Approach
THEORY OF LEARNING
The Natural Approach has a profound theory of learning which is based on
Krashen’s five-faceted theory of language acquisition
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there are five hypothesis :
• The Acquisition-learning Hypothesis
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• The Monitor Hypothesis
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• The Input Hypothesis
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• The Natural Order Hypothesis
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THEORY OF LANGUAGE
a language learner can grasp the essentials of what a native speaker speaks to
him in genuine communicative contexts and can respond to the native speaker in
such a fashion that the message is efficiently and correctly interpretable
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there are two things that become characteristic of natural approach
Language is viewed as a vehicle for communicating meaning and messages
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Design
The Syllabus
syllabus design is based on the results of needs analyses
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In the Natural Approach, the syllabus is also communicatively oriented
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The natural approach aims to foster naturalistic language acquisition in a classroom setting, and to this end it emphasizes communication,
and places decreased
importance on conscious grammar study and explicit correction of student errors
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the Natural Approach suggests that a teacher may act as a guide, input
provider, and facilitator
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At the initial (pre production or silent)
stage, learners assume a passive role, absorbing and digesting input
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This
also applies to a student in a class using the Natural Approach
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For a child, the learning process is subconscious
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Procedure
CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES
• Content culture, subject matter, new information, reading, e
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teacher tells
interesting anecdote involving contrast between target and native culture
• Afective-humanistic, students' own ideas, opinions, experiences, e
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students are asked to share personal preferences as to music, places to live,
clothes, hair styles, etc
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, e
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TECHNIQUES
In the classroom we observed, the teacher made the use of several of these techniques and activities
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As has already been mentioned, class room activities are basically games, dialog, role-plays, etc
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The topics and situations
used for these are determined by learner needs

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