STAGES OF LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE
Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell describe the natural stages of language acquisition in their book The Natural Approach. All students who learn English as a second language will pass through these stages, some more quickly than others.
The list below is excerpted from Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners by Jane D. Hill and Kathleen M. Flynn.
It gives a comprehensive overview of the stages all students will pass through while learning a second language.
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