How to manage your language learning program

Most people do not give much thought to the management of a personal language learning program. In traditional language school situations the language learner lets the curriculum designer and teacher set goals, plan, and evaluate the program.

By learning to manage your own program, you can

• take charge of your own learning
• make sure your program will meet your goals
• increase your motivation, and
• increase the likelihood of continuing to learn after any formal study is over.

1. Set your language learning goals.
2. Make a strategic language learning plan.
3. Monitor the language learning process as you implement your plan.
4. Check your progress.
5. Identify and solve problems.

• 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.]

Page content last modified: 15 September 1998

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