What is an approach to language learning?

What is an approach to language learning?

Definition
	An approach to language learning consists of the techniques and activities you decide to use to learn a language, based on
	your beliefs about language and how it is learned your learning style preferences the constraints of the learning situation

Examples

Several approaches to language acquisition are included in the Language Learning Bookshelf. There are four approaches based on learning style preferences:

Approaches to language learning based on learning style preferences

The Relational Approach to language learning
The Analytical Approach to language learning
The Structured Approach to language learning
The Energetic Approach to language learning

See:

For discussion of these four approaches, see Approaches to language learning based on learning style.

See also
	Ways to approach language learning
	Essays on Field Language Learning

Context for this page:

Concept module: approach to language learning
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.]

Page content last modified: 21 March 1999