Wednesday, 12 February 2014




In this video Stephen Krashen talks about on second language Acquisition. Stephen krashen gives the important of phonemic Awareness in language acquisition and target of second language study in English. His First story talks about NCLB- No Cooperation Left Behind. He talks about phonemic word and phonemic learning errors. Phonemic word is ability to take a word and break it into its sound. NRP consisted number of behavioural psychological theories. That claim was phonemic word is training. They stated that phonemic learning will never improve children’s reading and spelling abilities. If children’s are trained and they get better, it means that they are un-text of phonemic learner. It happens in the case when the activity has nothing to do with language.  He considered that if we have more studies, may be the results will be different. A minute distinction between training and education has been made by National Reading Panel. It has considered phonemic learning as a training.