Resources for planning and managing your language learning

Resources for planning and managing your language learning

Introduction
	Most people have never had to plan and manage their own language learning because teachers and curriculum designers did it for them.
	The Language Learning bookshelf has many resources to help you
	take responsibility for your own learning, and make sure your goals and needs are met.

Principal Resources

If you want to know how to ...	Then use ...
Set appropriate language learning goals	Set goals.
Make a strategic language learning plan	Make a plan.
Design a custom-made language-culture learning program	Designing a language and culture learning program. Guidelines for a language and culture learning program.
Evaluate your language proficiency	Check your progress. ACTFL Guidelines
Identify and solve language learning problems	Identify and solve problems. Language Learning Troubleshooter.

Other resources
	Here are some other resources relevant to this topic:
	Common purposes or functions of language An inventory of some of the purposes for which people commonly use language Ways to approach language learning Descriptions of four approaches to language learning A developmental approach to language learning for beginning language learners by Greg Thomson. This paper gives specific suggestions for how to work with a speaker of a language to develop understanding of about 1000 words and basic grammatical structures. Language learning strategies Strategies language learners can use to make the process work for them A language and culture learning program for independent learners A program developed by Herb Purnell for independent language and culture learning for people living in the target culture. This is one syllabus you could choose to follow in your language learning program Language learner's field guide A systematic guide to investigating language and culture by Alan Healy. This book, wirtten in 1975 assumes a linguist doing field work in a minority language. It takes a principally analytical approach. Worksheets for managing your language learning Worksheets you can print out and photocopy for your own use

Context for this page:

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