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comprehensible input  

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  • This controversial concept was developed by Stephen Krashen in the 1970s and 1980s in connection with the input hypothesis, which claims that the way humans acquire language is by understanding messages or by receiving comprehensible input. In the late 1970s, Krashen referred to comprehensible input as intake. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Comprehensible Input]

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