Strategies for Learning Foreign Languages

On September 20, 2006, 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 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

Panel: Sports and Languages
4:30 pm, Monday, September 8
Great Hall, Memorial Union

A discussion with alumni and other professionals using languages in the world of sports. Learn more>

Interactive Lecture: Language Learning Strategies
Sally Sieloff Magnan, University of Wisonsin-Madison
3:30, Tuesday, September 16
254 Van Hise Hall

Want to learn how to become a better language learner? Learn how to do better in your language classes? Come to this talk for specific tips on oprtimizing your language learning experience. Learn more>

Lecture: Interaction as Method and Result of Language Learning
Joan Kelly Hall, Pennsylvannia State University
4:00 pm, Tuesday, September 30
254 Van Hise Hall

A public lecture in the SLA Talk Series on interaction and language learning. Learn more >

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
Place TBD

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

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