1. Providing students with text of their own levels for reading practice
  2. Sharing newspaper articles with students and asking them to read these aloud
  3. Underlining important words in a passage and checking if students comprehend their meaning.
  4. Providing students with texts slightly above their level
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Option 4 : Providing students with texts slightly above their level

Language Acquisition is the process in which a child acquires the capacity to comprehend language. Language acquisition is the process in which a child learns his/her mother tongue. 

 

  • In Theory of Second Language Acquisition, Stephen Krashen proposed the five main hypotheses, the input hypothesis is one of them.
  • According to the Input hypothesis, comprehensible input refers to the input that is slightly more advanced than learners' current level of mastery.
  • It helps learners in improving language by making them able to communicate efficiently, acquire language naturally and understand the text effectively.
  • Language is acquired not when the input is repeated several times, but when that input is understood, when the learner understands what it means and can make use of it. 

Hence, it is clear that providing students with texts slightly above their level is an example of a teacher trying to provide 'comprehensible input' as per Krashen's hypothesis.

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