EUGENE NIDA

Children in particular, utilize the

parts of the sentence they
understand and ignore the rest.
Nida points out the children’s
fundamental order in language
learning in her observation:
The scientifically valid procedure in
language learning involves listening first, to
be followed by speaking. Then come reading
and finally the writing of the language. This
is just the order in which a child learns
his/her mother tongue- first hearing, then
speaking; and only after he has acquired
considerable facility in understanding and
speaking, can he now then read and write.
( Nida, Learning a Foreign Language 119-
20)