Tuesday's Tip for Language Learning #22: Tactics and Strategies
Excerpt from Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star Tactics and Strategies E When you are struggling to learn on a foreign language, it may feel like you are on a battlefield. You are, in a way. You have an objective. You are out to conquer something: the language. But that is as far as one might be able to stretch the image. We teach language for peace, and some of the best cross-cultural bridge builders are foreign language students who have achieved the capacity to use the language for work and leisure. How most people reach that point is through good language learning tactics and strategies. Tactics refer to ways of accomplishing something in the short term; they are simple and have narrow objectives. They are actions. Strategies are how one goes about accomplishing a goal for the long term: they can have greater breadth and applicability. They are plans. In language learning, strategies and tactics play a role as well. Language learners need a plan, a