An Approach that is useful for non-native speakers of a language, speacially is they are kids

2. Developed by Tracy Terrell and supported by
Stephen Krashen.
“A proposal for a 'new' philosophy of
language teaching which [he] called the
Natural Approach” (Terrell 1977; 1982: 121).
“Traditional" approaches to language
teaching.
The natural method.
The term natural.

3. Theory of language.
Theory of learning:
*The acquisition/learning hypothesis.
*The monitor hypothesis.
*The natural order hypothesis.
*The input hypothesis.
*The affective filter hypothesis.

4. Objectives.
The syllabus.
Types of learning and teaching activities.
Learner roles.
Teacher roles.
The role of instructional materials.

5. Krashen and Terrell provide a wide range of
activities , all of which are familiar components of
Situational Language Teaching, Commmunicative
Language Teaching, and other methods discussed in
this book.

6. The Natural Approach belongs to a tradition of language
teaching meth-ods based on observation and interpretation of how
learners acquire both first and second languages in non-formal
settings. Such methods reject the formal (grammatical) organization
of language as a prereq-uisite to teaching. In the Natural
Approach, a focus on comprehension and meaningful
communication as well as the provision of the right kinds of
comprehensible input provide the necessary and sufficient
conditions for successful classroom second and foreign language
acquisition. Like Communi-cative Language Teaching, the Natural
Approach is hence evolutionary rather than revolutionary in its
procedures. Its greatest claim to originality lies not in the techniques
it employs but in their use in a method that emphasizes and
meaningful practice activities, rather than production of
grammatically perfect utterances and sentences.