Stephen D. Krashen > Quotes

“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions. In fact, it is impossible to develop high levels of literacy without being a dedicated reader, and dedicated readers rarely have serious problems in reading and writing.”
― Krashen Stephen D.

“Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom

“The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.”
― Stephen D. Krashen

“Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth!”
― Stephen Krashen

“Older acquirers progress more quickly in early stages because they obtain more comprehensible input, while younger acquirers do better in the long run because of their lower affective filters.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

“The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

“The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom

“What immersion has taught us is that comprehensible subject-matter teaching is language teaching — the subject matter class is a language class if it is made comprehensible. In fact, the subject-matter class may even be better than the language class for language acquisition.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

“Reading is the only way, the only way we become good readers, develop a good writing style, an adequate vocabulary, advanced grammatical competence, and the only way we become good spellers.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research by Stephen D. Krashen, Libraries Unlimited

“In my work in language acquisition, I have concluded that we acquire language in only one way: by understanding messages, or obtaining "comprehensible input" in a low-anxiety situation.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research by Stephen D. Krashen, Libraries Unlimited

“Αν η Αμερική μπορεί να αυξήσει τη χρηματοδότηση για τις βιβλιοθήκες και τους βιβλιοθηκονόμους, δεν μπορώ παρά να πιστεύω ότι η Αμερική έχει βρει ένα σημαντικό τρόπο να ανοικοδομηθεί.”
― Stephen Krashen

“Language acquisition comes from input, not output; from comprehension, not production.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research by Stephen D. Krashen, Libraries Unlimited

“At times the temptation to get rid of them (the children of the poor) is strong. But if we lose them, school is no longer school. It is a hospital that tends to the healthy and rejects the sick. It becomes just a place to strengthen the existing differences to a point of no return.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research by Stephen D. Krashen, Libraries Unlimited