waystage

English

Etymology

From way +‎ stage.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• gateways, getaways, waygates