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Etymology

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From way +‎ stage.

Noun

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waystage (plural waystages)

  1. (education) A stage on the way to successfully learning something, especially a foreign language.
    • 1997, Gavriel Salomon, Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations:
      Teachers are encouraged to see these common problems as fruitful errors, waystages on the route to mature understanding that they can manipulate and direct in useful ways.

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