Child Development and Pedagogy · Theories of Language Acquisition
After introducing "tense forms" to grade 5 students, a teacher set up a pair activity: Student A takes a piece of text in the simple present tense from a book and conveys it to Student B in the past tense. Student B tries to guess what the present tense would have been. Student A modifies their conversion from present to past tense if needed, repeatedly, until Student B guesses correctly. The above activity most closely represents which of the following?
- 1Krashen's Input hypothesis
- 2Swain's Output hypothesis✓
- 3Bruner's theory of development
- 4Krashen's Acquisition-Learning hypothesis
Correct answer
Swain's Output hypothesis
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