What is your idea of this statement -There are no elevators in language learning. You have to take the stairs.

Answer 1

When you were born you were equipped with something, a language acquisition device or in short, LAD. The hardware of the LAD are parts of your brain and your speaking organs. The software is what "Noam Chomsky calls "universal grammar," the knowledge of principal of all human languages (Chomsky is still alive and has his own website.) LAD is just like species specific knowledge in animals that they know many things not being thought. Learning your first language, LAD is not only an elevators but a pair of wings and you don't need to do anything but fly. Going or not going to school for literacy, you can't be anyone else but a native speaker. And you can be one without well-prepared syllabus, teacher, whatever, only being exposed to the language. It's just that. With the first-handed universal grammar in mind, you can understand almost immediately anything in detail about your first language. All you have to do is remember what you have learned. If you are a student of a second language, English for example here, you don't have first-handed universal grammar. It has been developed into core grammar, and then into the language competence of your first language. It may even now go against your learning of English. All the students of English as a second language can do then is to go step by step. Though this is the only a good thing we know and mostly do, but it is not the best thing still. There is an elevator. According to the theory of the second language acquisition, we can automatize any linguistic items through practice. Automatization may not be considered the real language acquisition but if something right is initiated, it can be established as one, sooner or later. If you think you would go step by step, you'll keep practice everything about English, and may surely automatize something. But if what you have automatized is not the core grammar of English, you have to keep practicing everything the rest of your life. The bad news is that without real aquisition of core grammar everything else is very difficult. If you believe that automatization is possible, put your whole energy on a single point trying to automatize the core grammar and push it further converting it into real language acquisition of yours. There is really an elevator. It is the best way to go. You just can't go step by step around the world. Once you can get into an elevator, it goes up by itself the same way it happens to the native speakers.

Answer 2

It means that language learning is not an easy task, you have
to take the step by step (stairs) to learn the language methodology.

Answer 3

to learn a language you have to choice the long way, because there is no short and easy way to learn it

Answer 4

Where does it?Where are you from?I'm from Iran.Stupid boy!!!!forget it;but come to Iran and see the schools,offices,statements and ....After that say Is it good or bad.
We must go up 12 floors without ELEVATOR's.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

it means that you can't take the easy way out. you cant skip levels. you have to work your way up and put alot of hard work in!

i agree
so im going to get back to my work now i think =D