Tuesday's Tip for Language Learning #23: Tactics and Strategies - Thinking Like a Good Language Learner
Excerpt from Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star Tactics and Strategies Thinking Like a Good Language Learner Extensive studies, beginning in the 1970s, have been conducted about what makes a good language leaner (Reeves, 2019; Rubin & Thompson, 1994; Stevick, 1990; among many others). From those studies, we have learned many of the common traits and actions that help learners succeed at language learning. If you are interested in learning more about the results of these studies than there is room to include here, check out the list of books recommended in the previous pages. Strategies Thinking of strategies as long-term plans to reach ultimate objectives, then those strategies need to focus on bringing your traits (attitudes and behaviors) into alignment with the traits of good language learners. These are not things you do; these are things you become. You will need to assess who you are and what you have already become. What tra...