Choosing a language learning approach

People have differing views about the language acquisition process and prefer to go about it in different ways. The approach you take to language learning depends on your beliefs about language learning, your learning style and personality, and on the program you find most congenial.

• Read as much as you can about second language acquisition and the kinds of activities and conditions that favor it.

  See:	Language Learning Principles

• Decide what your own beliefs are about language learning.

  See:	Language learning beliefs questionnaire

• If you haven't alrady done so, investigate your learning style and its implications for language learning.
• Familiarize yourself with several approaches to language and culture learning

  See:	Ways to approach language learning

• Choose one of these approaches or some other approach to language learning that fits your beliefs and learning style.

• Task module: Choosing a language learning approach
• In task module: Making a strategic plan for language learning
• In task module: How to manage your language learning program
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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