Input

Input

1. what is input?

   • In SLA
     • it is the language that a learner hears with a communicative purpose
       • the comprehend is encoded with syntax, morphology and so on.
     • primary linguistic data, the linguistic enviroment, ambient speech
       • the language that the learner hears is not that the learner produces
       • language with a communicative intent is to understand the meaning
       • it must be comprehensible
   • L2
     • Perceived in instructions "open your books in th page 24"

2. in the first langage acquisition

   • "are you hungry?, are you crying? those are inputs.

3. Has a connection with the comprenhension, it does not matter what language is engaged. to comprenhend something in the L2

4. it is not learning the rule, drilling or filling out an exercise,

5. conversational

   • the learners hear the language in the context and they are part of this interaction.
     • clasroom interaction in the L2, playing games, conversations.

6. nonconversational

   • the learner is not part of the interaction, it is indiviidual.
     • listening the radio, watching tv, watching movies