Krashen said "If you give people enough comprehensible input, i+1 is there. Automatically. You don't have to worry". It's not like you're on the wrong track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdoDTXwZVj0#t=45m
(the embedder breaks for me so I can't check if the timestamp works with it, so I broke the embed)
I'm still a huge proponent for memorizing important things that are hard to learn when you can't read (like the most common words in the domain of material you want to consume), because it makes stepping into comprehensible input a lot easier. Just to get where you can actually read good content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdoDTXwZVj0#t=45m
(the embedder breaks for me so I can't check if the timestamp works with it, so I broke the embed)
I'm still a huge proponent for memorizing important things that are hard to learn when you can't read (like the most common words in the domain of material you want to consume), because it makes stepping into comprehensible input a lot easier. Just to get where you can actually read good content.
Edited: 2016-05-10, 9:59 pm