If the student isn't motivated, if self-esteem is low, if anxiety is high , if the student is on the defensive, if the student thinks the language class is a place where his weaknesses will be revealed. he may understand the input, but it won't penetrate. It won't reach those parts of the brain that do language acquisition. A block keeps it out. We call this block the affective filter.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

For language acquisition succeed anxiety has to be directed somewhere else, not at the language. The child has to assume that she's going to be successful.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

The amount of drive or anxiety necessary to accomplish a task depends on the task. Sometimes what we call facilitative anxiety is okay.I don't believe in torture,but sometimes a little anxiety is okay.Language acquisition though, is different.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

But what counts in speaking is not what you say, but what the other person says to you.In other words when you get involved in conversation, what counts is the input that you can stimulate from other people.So I'm in favor of students speaking but we have to understand it makes an indirect: a helpful, but indirect contribution to language acquisition.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

When she started to speak, it was not the beginning of her language acquisition. It was the result of all the comprehensible input she had gotten over those five months.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

The question is this: what was going on during those five months? She was listening. She was picking out comprehensible input. When she started to speak. It was not the beginning of her language acquisition.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

So I remember going up to the little girl next door.she was four years old. her name was Itomi. And I didn't know about this material on language acquisition. Nobody did.And I thought that the way you get people to acquire language is you get them to practice talking. So I tried to get her to talk. so I'd say: 'Itomi, talk to me!' 'Say good morning','say hi', No response.Well, clearly, I've decided , I've got to make this more concrete."Itomi, say ball", No response.Well obviously, I've got to break it down into its component parts.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

No satellite acquisition of signal.
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This is what we feel the company's capacity can go to after this acquisition.
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Jimmy, when I promoted you to acquisitions, you told me you'd get your mother to jump off a bridge.
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