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The Effectiveness Of The Comprehension Hypothesis: A Review On The Current Research On Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition

R. Joseph Ponniah*

* Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology, Trichirappalli, India.

Periodicity:April - June'2011
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jelt.1.2.1452

Abstract

The Comprehension Hypothesis (CH) is the most powerful hypothesis in the field of Second Language Acquisition despite the presence of the rivals the skill-building hypothesis, the output hypothesis, and the interaction hypothesis. The competing hypotheses state that consciously learned linguistic knowledge is a necessary step for the development of second language competence whereas the CH posits that comprehensible input as the crucial ingredient of SLA. Moreover, conscious knowledge of second language can be used only to edit the output of the acquired language. The article further reviews some of the current research on vocabulary acquisition and the review confirms that incidental acquisition of vocabulary is more powerful than intentional learning.

Keywords

Comprehensible Input, Incidental Learning, Comprehension Check.

How to Cite this Article?

Ponniah, J. (2011). The Effectiveness Of The Comprehension Hypothesis: A Review On The Current Research On Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition. i-manager’s Journal on English Language Teaching, 1(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.26634/jelt.1.2.1452

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