What is monitor model?

 

                Ans: Stephen Krashen is an educator and linguist who proposed the Monitor Model as his theory of second language acquisition in his influential text Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition in 1982.The  Monitorposits five hypotheses about second language acquisition and learning:

a) Acquisition Learning Hypothesis

b) Natural Order Hypothesis

c) Monitor Hypothesis

d) Input  Hypothesis

e) Affective Filter Hypothesis.

               However, despite the popularity and influence of the  Monitor Model ,the five hypothesis are not without criticism.