Far Cry from Africa and Krashen's main hypothesis

Krashen hypothesizes that second language acquisition is very similar to
the process children use when acquiring their first language. It requires
meaningful interaction in the new language--natural communication--in
which speakers are concerned with the messages they are conveying
and understanding, not with the grammatical form of the language.
According to Krashen, error correction and explicit teaching of rules are
not important in language acquisition. Rather, students learn best when
they are focusing on the purpose of communicating, not the form of the
language.
Derek Walcott: Walcott was born in 1930
in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of
the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles.
The experience of growing up on the isolated
volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had
a strong influence on Walcott’s life and work.
Both his grandmothers were said to have
been the descendants of slaves. His father, a
Bohemian watercolourist, died when Derek
and his twin brother, Roderick, were only a
few years old. His mother ran the town’s
Methodist school. After studying at St.
Mary’s College in his native island and at the
University of the West Indies in Jamaica,
Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where he
has worked as theatre and art critic. At the age
of 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, but
his breakthrough came with the collection of
poems, In a Green Night (1962). In 1959, he
founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop
which produced many of his early plays.
Walcott has been an assiduous traveller to
other countries but has always, not least in his
efforts to create an indigenous drama, felt
himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society
with its cultural fusion of African, Asiatic
and European elements. For many years, he
has divided his time between Trinidad, where
he has his home as a writer, and Boston
University, where he teaches literature and
creative writing.