Guidelines for Stage 3 of the Analytical approach

• Explore cultural themes using the following techniques:

  • The Ethnographic Interview technique
  • The Life History Interview technique
• Analyze the values and assumptions underlying the way people act.
• Participate in a wide range of communicative situations.
• Systematically expand the areas of vocabulary you control.
• Use The Conversational Analysis technique (NO MODULE EXISTS FOR THIS TECHNIQUE)
• Use a checklist of Language Functions and Situations to expand the number of situations in which you can function effectively in the language

• Work on accuracy by using The Record for Correction technique.

• Use analytical techniques to help you discover rules and system in the language so that you develop a "system view."

• Pay attention to the way people say things, as well as what they say.
• Keep a language learning journal.

• Principle module: Guidelines for Stage 3 of the Analytical approach
• In overview module: The Analytical approach to language learning
• In overview module: Four approaches to language learning based on lear...
• In modular book: Ways to Approach Language Learning, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

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