Natural Approach

What is this method?

It is a method or a methodology

developed for the teaching of the foreign language

with the following characteristics^

The acquisition learning hypothesis

The monitor hypothesis

The natural orden hypothesis

The input hyphotesis

The affective filter hypothesis

developed by

two specific linguist authors

Tracy terrell

Professor of Spanish at the University of California

between 1970 and 1985

have a collaboration together

in the book The Natural Approach (1983)

Stephen Krashen

He is currently a teacher at the University of Southern California.

He is a linguist, educational researcher, and political activist.

With the next advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

vocabulary-only activities

based on observation and interpretation

Disadvantages

not based on grammar

there should always be visual aids