Guidelines for Stage 2 of the Analytical approach

• Work on your ability to process the language, not just what you know about the language.

• Use techniques that cause you to process oral or written texts and dialogues:

  • Production Practice techniques
  • The Series technique
  • The Shared Experiences technique
  • The Text Analysis technique

• Remember that continuing to expand your communicative repertoire will make a difference

  • in the amount of information you can effectively communicate to people, and
  • in how they feel about you and what you say.
• Plan what to learn next by using your analytical abilities to do a needs analysis.
• Initiate conversations with people if they are patient enough to make an effort to understand you and to make themselves understood.

• Participate in activities that give you opportunities to observe and listen while doing things with people.

  Examples:

  Group work projects Community meetings Funerals and weddings Sports events

  See also:

  The Participant Observation technique

• Principle module: Guidelines for Stage 2 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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