Language Learning Strategies

1. Personal Language Learning
Environment (PLLE)

2. THE MEDIA
 Listen to the radio in English – on your
mobile device or on your PC.
 Vaughan’s radio.
 Watch TV and films in English – on your
TV set, PC or mobile device.
DON’T USE SUBTITLES; USE
HEADPHONES INSTEAD.
 Get through the first 5 or 10 minutes. It’ll
eventually get easier. The visual support
will encourage you to keep watching on.
 Get hooked on a series or a sitcom.

3. SHADOWING
 http://www.hablamejoringles.com/que-
es-shadowing-en-el-aprendizaje-de-
los-idiomas/

4. ICT
 You don’t have time? Skype, Google
hangouts…
 MOOCs
◦ COURSERA
◦ EDX
◦ FUTURE LEARN
 APPS Mobile applications: vocabulary,
grammar, dictionaries
 Websites:
◦ TED Talks Different speakers on different
topics
 Exchanges online: tus clases, open
language exchange, my language exchange

5. ICT
 BBC Learning English:
◦ 6 minute English
◦ The English we speak
◦ Words in the news
 IMMERSION
◦ Set the language of your PC in English. Google
in English
◦ Set the language of your mobile in English
◦ Everything you download onto your PC/phone in
English
 Listen to music in English and then search for the
lyrics online
 How-to videos on you tube

6. COMMUNITY
 If you’re Advanced Level, teach privately:
Learning by teaching
 Find a non-native speaker of English:
your sister, your brother, a friend
 Find a native speaker of English and
exchange English for Spanish: your
American neighbor
 We live in Córdoba, there are lots of
tourists, find them, show them around,
help them find their way around
 Meetup a group with common interests:
join a group of people who want to learn
English

7. HOME/FAMILY
 Help your children do their homework.
 Make the most of your holidays: Travel
abroad
 Reading lots of books
 Set an English-speaking day, e.g.
Sunday afternoons
 Airbnb Host a room at home

8. SCHOOL
 Regular classes: speak in English with
your classmates, inside and outside
the classroom.
 Don’t miss classes

9. BEING AWARE IS THE FIRST
STEP FOR IMPROVEMENT.
Keep a diary of everything you do to improve your English
throughout the day. Your diary should reflect:
- How much listening practice you did today (Did you listen to
the radio today? Did you watch the TV in English today? Did
you listen to podcasts in English today?...)
- How much you read in English today (Did you read the news
online today?, Did you read a book or part of a book
today?...)
- How much you wrote in English today (Did you write an email
in English today? Did you write your shopping list in English
today?...)
- How much you spoke in English today (Did you have a
conversation with a native speaker today? Did you speak with
yourself in English today?...)
Your diary should reflect how much time you estimate you have
devoted to English today. That should give you an idea of
how much effort you are putting into your English learning
process.

10. If you don’t have much time
Every day when you go to bed spend
10 minutes:
- Writing a diary in English
OR, alternatively,
- Speaking with yourself in English: tell
yourself everything you’ve done all
day since you woke up.

11.  Anything that you can do in English,
do it in English, e.g. Choose English at
the cashpoint
 If at first you don’t succeed, try try
again