Krashen's Monitor Model Theory

Krashen's Monitor Model Theory

Stephen Krashen is an expert in the field of linguistics, specializing in theories of language acquisition and development. Much of his recent research has involved the study of non-English and bilingual language acquisition. During the past 20 years, he has published well over 100 books and articles and has been invited to deliver over 300 lectures at universities throughout the United States and Canada. He works today for the University of Southern California.
Krashen is well known for his famous monitor model theories which were evolved in the late 1970' s in a series of articles, and was later elaborated and expanded in a number of books, where he argued that his account provides a general or overall theory of L2 acquisition with important implications for language teaching.
Krashen's theory of second language acquisition consists of five main hypotheses:

· the Acquisition-Learning hypothesis,
· the Monitor hypothesis,
· ...