Summary about Natural Approach

Natural Approach:
This approach was development by Krashen Stephen and Tracy Terrel in 1977.
The essence of language is meaning, when the vocabulary is the heart of language.

Characteristics:
-second language development: Acquisition as a natural subconscious process
-learning as a conscious process.
-Conscious learning works through a monitor that checks of output of what has ben acquired.
-Grammatical structures are acquired in a predictable order.
-the communicative activities and topics are selected from learner needs.
-The activities learner's involve meaningful commnunication.
-The teacher is the primary source of comprehensible input, and must create positive low anxiety climate.
-It is designed to give beginners and intermediate learners basic communicative skills