Two big water tanks overlook the land. The land is full of seeds. It rains little here, so how to get the water from the tanks to the seeds, so that they can grow and mature?
I would say to fill up the first tank with as much auditory comprehensible input as it can hold. Then fill up the second tank with an equally bodacious amount of reading input. Then, once the tanks are full, start running the water onto the fields.
In time, the writing and speaking plants will grow strong and sure. They will grow at different rates, but they will all grow. Even the ones that appear to be stupid. They too have been wired for this skill.
Everybody can learn a language. But if they don’t get the water in the form of listening and reading input first, they can never grow.
Related:
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2008/03/01/let-it-rain/
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2010/07/19/learning-a-language-is-an-unconscious-process-3/
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/08/12/dr-krashen/
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2012/07/31/we-focus-on-the-water/
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2012/10/10/let-the-brain-organize-it/