Learning in a structured setting

A structured or formal language learning setting is one set up especially for the purpose of learning the language. Although we usually think of a language classroom and a teacher when we think of a structured setting, there are various possibilities.

Here are some options for learning in a structured setting:

• Attend a language school.
• Do independent study with prepared language learning materials.
• Hire a tutor.
• Structure your own language program.

Here are some of the usual characteristics of structured programs:

• Grade language material, and add new items only as fast as you can reasonably be expected to learn them.
• Provide for you to learn in a controlled sequence.
• Give a lot of practice to develop automatic control (drill and practice activities).
• Add specific grammatical structures and vocabulary lists to language material.
• Put an emphasis on accuracy.

• Generic module: Learning in a structured setting
• In overview module: Structured language study options
• In overview module: Information to help you make a strategic plan
• 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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