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Wen
@shiwen
Some people argue that Stephen Krashen’s comprehensible input theory emphasizes too much on the language environment. What if you want to raise a multilingual child, but you don’t have anyone at home who speaks other languages? Legit concern I feel very lucky and privileged that I am able to provide a Chinese language environment at home for my child. However, there will be limitations no matter what. Maybe his comprehensible input theory is still helpful even for monolingual parents. Just knowing the nature of language acquisition and making small changes to offer a language rich environment. As a parent sometimes I simply had to turn off the “concern section” in my brain and go with the flow. You can’t control everything and that’s ok.
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@zeni.eth
I heard Krashen speak in person a few times, and he'd always tell the story of an adult using comprehensible input to learn a language from a book. Intuitively, I feel like the "affective filter" of young children and their plasticity is so qualitatively different from adults that CI could almost be treated entirely differently. Just spitballing, of course, it's very hard to test to know the real mechanics.
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@shiwen
Adults are more cognitively aware of the our own learning experience and are more capable to reflect/adjust in the process. This is also partially why I think I can stay cool if my child doesn’t want to speak Chinese now or in the near future. When she wants to, she can pick up something of her choice in adulthood.
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