This stage is also known as the "silent period", "receptive phase" [9, p. 14] or “non-verbal period” [6]. Learners in this phase exhibit a reluctance to produce the target language (TL) [12, p. 3]. During the early exposure to a TL, there is often an observable period where learners refrain from speaking the language [20, p. 129]
~ in the beginning of lang learning, learners are reluctant to produce language
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- ~ introduce speaking exercises after about 120 hours of TPR instruction
- ~ language learning happens in phases defined by stepping over thresholds
- ~ students are ready to speak after 10h of TPR
- ~ when students start speaking under TPR instruction varies wildy