Stephen Krashen is one the forefathers in ESL education and his work has been studied in universities since it was hot off the presses, right along with Chomsky and Skinner. This video shows the importance of using SIOP components and makes the audience think of how instructional models should be used (at least it made me think of how explicit instruction is being used all wrong in some schools with ELLs). Though riddled with charming 1980s awkwardness, this video sums up the foundation of language learning.
Take a look at the 1980's superhero of SLA:
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