Resources to help you prepare for language learning

Resources to help you prepare for language learning

Introduction
	When you know you will be learning another language, there are things you can do to prepare ahead of time.
	The Language Learning bookshelf has many resources to help you
	discover more about language and the language learning process discover how your personal characteristics may affect the way you go about language learning.

Principal Resources

The principal resource to help you prepare for language learning is Prepare for Language Learning. Here is some more information about specific topics:

If you want to...	Then use ...
Learn more about language in general	Principles about language in general
Learn more about language learning	Principles about language learning Guidelines for language learners
Learn more about characteristics of language learners in general and how they may effect language learning, and more about your own	Principles about learner characteristics
Discover your own learning style characteristics and see how they can be applied to language learning	How to discover your learning style and create a learning style profile. Your learning style and language learning
Discover more about your attitudes and the effect of attitudes on language learning	The language learning attitudes questionnaire Principles about learner attitudes and motivation
Learn about other factors that may affect the speed and ease with which you learn a language	Principles about language learning situations Principles about the language you are learning

Other resources
	Here are some other resources relevant to this topic:
	Approaches to language learning based on learning style Suggestions about how to approach language learning in a way that fits your style Language learning strategies Strategies language learners can use to make the process work for them Language Learning Stories Read the experiences of other language learners and see what worked for them

Context for this page:

Fact module: Resources to help you prepare for language learnin...
In overview module: Overview of the language learning workshop
In modular book: Welcome to the Language Learning Workshop, by International Language Learning Department
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: 21 March 1999