“Nothing happens by
coincidence” said William S. Burroughs. It also supported by some experts that
can beat Darwin theory that stated “this world exists by coincidence”.
Everything happens for a reason, through some process, and has some purposes.
This world is created through some processes and took times, in Al- Quran
stated that this world is created in 6 days. So is in language mastery. Human
can’t use language directly when they were born in this world. People acquire
first language through some process, such as: babbling, one word stage, two
words stage, telegraphic, and then the last is fluency and surely it takes
several times to through all of the process. In line with that, mastering
English as a foreign language also need some process and stages that takes some
intervals of time.
When I was in my
elementary school, I have learned English since I was in my third grade. At
first, I could minimally understand the words and couldn’t use English in my
communication yet. All things that I knew were Yes and No, this stage is called
preproduction stage. Not long after that, I started to understand and utter
word by word and this stage is called Early Production. When I was in my 4th
grade I started to develop more complex words and combined words with other
words co I could communicate the basic thing I knew, this stage is called
Speech Emergence. In this stage I’ve always said something ungrammatical and
wrong. This stage happened in a very long period. And the forth stage is
Intermediate Fluency, in this stage, a person can form a complete ideas and
sentences with less grammatical error, in my point of view I’m still in this
stage. And not yet reach the last stage of acquiring language, that is fluency.
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