Comprehensible input
이해 가능한 입력
Also known as: input hypothesis
The claim that language is acquired by receiving input a little beyond the current level but still understandable.
Krashen proposed that language is acquired when learners receive enough input they can understand, written as i+1: slightly beyond the current level i.
The hypothesis has long been criticised as hard to test. Still, the broad direction, that plentiful understandable input helps, does not conflict with the wider evidence.
In practice: books whose pictures carry the meaning, scenes the child knows, repeated sentence patterns. All of these make input understandable.
- i+1A little beyond, still understandable.
- SupportsPictures, repetition and familiar situations.