Legal Claim Definition

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Legal Claim Definition

The Monitor Hypothesis

Stephen Krashen is an educator and linguist who proposed the Monitor Model as his theory of second language acquisition in his influential text Principles and practice in second language acquisition in 1982. The Monitor Model posits five hypotheses about second language acquisition and learning:

  1. Acquisition-learning hypothesis
  2. Natural order hypothesis
  3. Monitor hypothesis
  4. Input hypothesis
  5. Affective filter hypothesis

However, despite the popularity and influence of the Monitor Model, the five hypotheses are not without criticism. The following sections offer a description of the third hypothesis of the theory, the monitor hypothesis, as well as the major criticism by other linguistics and educators surrounding the hypothesis.