KRASHEN’S THEORY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
KRASHEN’S THEORY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Stephan Krashen is a linguist who specializes in language acquisition and language development theories. Second language acquisition theory has a great impact on teaching a second language since the 1980s. Before Krashen, there were some methods to teach English such as Grammar Translation Method (GTM), Direct Method (DM), Situational- Oral Approach, Audiolingualism, Cognitivism, Silentway, Suggestopedia, TPR. If we think about 100 years ago, there was no behavioural science, Pavlov, Skinner, etc. There was an intellectuality. There was importance on intellectual people. Thus, the aim of teaching was to grow up intellectual people who can translate from one language to another, and the Grammar Translation Method came out. In short, the motto was the language for conversation, translation of literature. After some time, a group of people thought that learning a language is not only for intellectual people, there should be so
