Using Guidelines for a Language-Culture learning program to monitor learning

The Guidelines for a language and culture learning program list objectives for each area of communicative competence. They also list strategies, techniques and activities you can use to help meet those objectives. The Guidelines are particularly aimed at people who have to design their own lessons.

You can also use the Guidelines to monitor how your daily activities and lessons contribute toward meeting your objectives.

• Write down the techniques and activities you are using in your language learning program (either in language school classes or independent learning).
• For each technique or activity, write down the objective(s) you think it is meant to help you achieve.
• Look at the Guidelines for the stage of learning you think you are currently in and list the objectives you think are important, but which do not seem to be covered by your current program.

  Tip:	Most language school programs will expose you to the basic sounds, grammatical structures and vocabulary of the language. They may be short on chances to use language in natural settings. For this reason the section of the Guidelines on Functions may be particularly helpful to you.

• Write down techniques or activities you could use to meet the objectives you have listed.

• Task module: Using Guidelines for a Language-Culture learning p...
• In task module: Monitoring the language learning process
• In task module: How to manage your language learning program
• 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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