The natural order hypothesis is one of Stephen Krashen's five hypotheses of second-language acquisition, proposed during the 1970s and 1980s. It holds that learners acquire the grammatical features of a language in a broadly predictable sequence, and that this sequence does not depend on how easy a given feature is to teach or on the order in which a curriculum happens to present it. Krashen based the claim on morpheme studies showing that certain grammatical forms are reliably acquired earlier than others across learners, independent of the instruction they receive.
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Core ClaimThe natural order hypothesis states that all learners acquire a language in roughly the same order. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Natural Order Hypothesis
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The natural order hypothesis states that all learners acquire a language in roughly the same order.
2. Natural order hypothesis (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia 'Natural order hypothesis': one of Krashen's five input-hypothesis group; 'The input hypothesis was first published in 1977.'View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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