http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=2BFCF553-E7F2-99DF-34E7D16A89DCF458
This is an interesting article recently released. I was wondering about this too. It seemed that the slowness in learning was that you had to wait for the words to be able to connect before you could figure them out. But there seems to be a certain point at which you just need to explode out. And following a bell curve of difficulty seems to fit a crucial part of this puzzle. This also confirms why there are people who did not take classes in a language and who started learning it as adults who also have a similar trend of not knowing what a lot of words mean, then knowing basic words but still having it pretty foggy, then having an explosion of knowledge, like a light being turned on.
Of course, this study only tested children, but it still seems like this could be applied to adult learning.
This is an interesting article recently released. I was wondering about this too. It seemed that the slowness in learning was that you had to wait for the words to be able to connect before you could figure them out. But there seems to be a certain point at which you just need to explode out. And following a bell curve of difficulty seems to fit a crucial part of this puzzle. This also confirms why there are people who did not take classes in a language and who started learning it as adults who also have a similar trend of not knowing what a lot of words mean, then knowing basic words but still having it pretty foggy, then having an explosion of knowledge, like a light being turned on.
Of course, this study only tested children, but it still seems like this could be applied to adult learning.