Talk:Monitor hypothesis

Creation of page

I created this page because there was no dedicated article for the (rather important and controversial) hypotheses of Stephen Krashen. The material was already on Wikipedia, but it was buried in a discussion of something completely different at the Critical Period Hypothesis page. I ripped it out, set up this page and added the 'further reading' and 'links' sections. Also, the introduction has been slightly modified. Jsteph 05:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that this should be completely redone

There are already separate articles for each of the 5 hypotheses. Additionally, this page is titled incorrectly- the monitor theory is not the name for all 5 of the theories, it is but a part of the larger picture. The monitor theory or hypothesis is only one of Krashen's 5 fundamental theories of second language acquisition. If this article were to be kept, I think it should be titled "Krashen's theories of language acquisition" or some such something. Lpjurca (talk) 04:10, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The umbrella term is 'monitor model', though Krashen rarely refers to them as anything other than "five hypotheses". The 'monitor hypothesis' is one of the five. But too late now... 13:38, 15 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.168.18 (talk)

Changes

I have made several changes to this article, including linking it to the more in-depth information provided by the other articles on Krashen's Theories. Additionally, I added sources and citations, along with more in-depth information about the Monitor Theory. I feel that these changes make this article more valuable to those seeking information about the Monitor Theory and Krashen's other theories. Lpjurca (talk) 21:17, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]