Strategies for Learning Foreign Languages

On September 20, Professor Sally Magnan, Director of the Language Institute and Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian, gave an interactive lecture for language students on strategies and study habits to become a better language learners. Download handout (PDF). Video of lecture coming soon! Learning Styles on the Web Try one or more of these learning style surveys to help you figure out which styles and strategies are the best match for you: http://www.ldpride.net/learning_style.html http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html http://pss.uvm.edu/pss162/learning_styles.html http://www4.nau.edu/edsup/SSS/learnstyl.htm

Upcoming

2008-09 Language Institute Lecture Series Culture, Literature and Language: Power and Pedagogies

Lecture: Land of the Free, Home of the Phraselator: The Weaponization of Language
Mary Louise Pratt, New York University
12:00 pm, Thursday, November 6
Room TBD

The first in a series of public lectures sponsored by the Language Institute on Culture, Literature and Language: Power and Pedagogies. Learn more >

Lecture: On the Division of 'Prosodic' and 'Non-Prosodic' Resources in Talk-in-Interaction
Gareth Walker, University of Sheffield
4:00 pm, Monday, November 10
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive

A significant amount of work published over the last twenty five years or so has shown how the phonetic design of talk-in-interaction is bound up with its sequential organisation. However, it is the consideration of prosodic--rather than general phonetic--features which seem to dominate current thinking. In this talk, Walker will set out some reasons for dealing with the phonetic design of talk in its totality. Learn more >

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