Interlanguage Development Quotes & Sayings

For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment. — John Wooden

Damn it! Are you so stupid you don't know what I'm going to do to you?"
Her eyes bore into his without flinching.
"Are you so stupid you haven't figured out yet that it doesn't matter? — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it. — Gregory Maguire

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. — Estelle Parsons

Loves by all pros and cons is better than force it to look perfect — CG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice. — Seth Godin

True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world. — Sulak Sivaraksa

I can feel him. He feels real. He smells like wet cat. He has fingers. Cats do not have fingers. — Katherine Applegate

It was as if a floodgate had been let down, and a rush of ecstasy mingled with long forgotten pain washed over his entire being. His hand tightened around hers, and he fought desperately with himself to command all the raging waters flowing through him. He could not, would not break down now. He took a deep breath and let it escape slowly. — L.A. Shaw

One person. All it takes is one person.
-Severus Snape , Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — J.K. Rowling

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'. — Brian Grazer

God didn't call you to be a failure. He called you to be a success — Sunday Adelaja

You are so in over your head that even a life raft can't keep you afloat. — Holly Stephens

Whether or not these ideas alone would solve any of the problems discussed, I look forward to the day when SLA is more widely recognized as the serious and socially responsive discipline I believe it can be. Chapters like this one (unpleasant for writer and assuredly some readers alike) would no longer be needed. One could instead concentrate on the genuine controversies and excitement in SLA and L3A: the roles of nature and nurture; special and general nativism; child-adult differences and the possibility of maturational constraints; cross-linguistic influence; acquisition and socialization; cognitive and social factors; resilience; stabilization; fossilization, and other putative mechanisms and processes in interlanguage change; the feasibility of pedagogical intervention; and, most of all, the development of viable theories. — Michael H. Long