Mc REL The Five Stages of Second Language Acquisition

Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners The Five Stages of Second Language Acquisition Anyone who has been around children who are learning to talk knows that the process happens in stagesfirst understanding, then oneword utterances, then twoword phrases, and so on. Students learning a second language move through five predictable stages: Preproduction Early Production Speech Emergence Intermediate Fluency Advanced Fluency How quickly students progress through the stages dep