Acquisition vs. Learning / Introduction to Methods

It’s clear that Education is not the same everywhere; each place has their particular characteristics which are taken from their society and that are the reasons why the curriculum is adapted to that specific community too.

Krashen pointed the difference between acquisition and learning.

• ·   Acquisition is understood as the way people acquire the first language by processes and strategies.
• ·         Learning refers to conscious and guided knowledge of second or foreign language.

Acquisition occurs when we accept the language as a part of us and we don’t consider it something that must be studied or learnt, but a important piece in our lives, which that not occur with the foreign one because we treat it as a subject that must be passed and not something significant for our world. 

If you want to show a great range of language materials, based on a strong relationship between the practice and the theory, you must use a Language learning method, which consists of three levels:

WHICH METHODS ARE WE GOING TO READ ABOUT?