AJ Hoge argues kids learn language through immersion, not textbooks. He cites Dr. Stephen Krashen's research showing grammar drills don't improve speaking. Native speakers break formal rules constantly and still communicate fine.
How can they use it correctly, do it as a skill, but they don't know the rules. They can't explain it. Right? And this is natural learning. And there's actually a lot of research about this. If you're interested in the research, check out a guy, do a search for A guy named Dr. Stephen Krashen. K R A S H E N. He did a huge amount of research on this topic showing that all this kind of analysis and knowledge and what he calls linguistic study or analysis does not help you actually improve your speaking skill at all. And what we need is natural learning, right? The way that babies learn a language, the way that native speakers learn speaking and grammar. Of course, we do use grammar and we use it correctly, but we don't learn it as rules. We don't analyze it. First of all, native speakers, we break the formal rules all the time. Okay, so again, what you're learning in your textbooks, it's. It's a very unnatural kind of English for speaking, certainly. I'll give you an example. I've been playing around with an AI chat, like a language learning chatbot, and I was doing it in English because I wanted to test it for, you know, if I would recommend it to you to use. Welcome to the restaurant. What would you like to drink? And I said, yeah, okay, I'll have a water. And give me a minute, I'm going to look at the menu. Totally common, natural response for me. Obviously, I'm a native speaker, right?
