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4 thoughts on “10,000 Hours”
Three thoughts, the first two are relevant to language acquisition.
1) Ray & Seely (2015) calculate the number 20k hours for a child to learn L1: 10 hours per day * 365 days * 6 years = 21,900 hours.
2) BVP (WWOTT, 2017) calculates 14,500 hours: 8 hours per day * 365 day * 5 years = 14,600 hours (BVP does not include the 1st year of life).
3) Malcolm Gladwell wrote in Outliers that 10,000 hours of practice are required to reach greatness in a field.
I can always count on you Nathaniel for facts like these. Thank you! I think you are right on the Gladwell idea. He wrote that book in 2008 which is exactly the time of what I sometimes call the Krashen Frenzy Years. In 2009 Krashen came to Denver Public Schools and gave us his blessing so that from then on (unfortunately) all the TPRS people have twisted his research to fit their sales, but one would have to read most of the articles here between 2008 and now to see how that is in my view an accurate statement.
The fact that Ray and BVP both have the number even HIGHER than that is significant.
We also must consider that children of poverty might have less input due to less interaction with their parents. I’m not sure if this results in delays in output or proficiency but it is something to consider student’s with trauma or negative feeling of school are also going to have an easily triggered affective filter which delays acquisition.
What Steven said.