Reading fiction can help learners become more empathetic citizens of the world. — Stephen Krashen

“When I get a book as a gift, I fear the day when the person presented it to me would ask me ‘How did you find the book?” “A gift book is assigned reading.” — Stephen Krashen

Stories all the way! Through a series of engaging personal stories, Stephen Krashen illustrates the core message of his talk….interesting stories can be a powerful tool in the repertoire of a teacher.

The key to teaching lower level learners is to make the stories ‘comprehensible’, easy and simple stories. —Stephen Krashen

Answering a question on the natural order of acquisition Stephen Krashen says that if the input is comprehensible, the order will emerge.

Commenting on the relationship between reading and writing, Stephen Krashen says that mediocre writers ‘write’, good writers ‘re-write’.

Language acquisition device (LAD) is more powerful than we thought. — Stephen Krashen

Commenting on graded readers, Stephen Krashen believes comic books can be a good incentive to read for the lower lever learners.

Thank you very much Stephen Krashen for your inspiring talk on the power of self-selected fiction in language learning. Highly appreciated, as always.

Saudi TESOL Research on comic book reading- Free Download: Krashen, S, and Ujiie, J. 2005. Junk food is bad for you, but junk reading is good for you. International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 1,3: 5-12. tinyurl.com/yc8tx8rn OK to share.

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A Talk by Professor Stephen Krashen Stephen Krashen titled :The Power of Self Selected Fiction youtu.be/dICCvpyYPp0?si… via YouTube

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