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| B-Tina Tetraglot Senior Member Germany dragonsallaroun Joined 5518 days ago 123 posts - 218 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Polish | Message 1 of 4 11 October 2010 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
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As I am about to rethink my learning strategy, I noticed that quite a lot self-learning websites promote the idea of goal setting. By this is usually referred to "SMART" goal setting (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria).
Do you apply this concept to your studies? If so, do you concentrate on a specific output (for instance "I will be able to communicate fluently on topic X by Date X) or do you measure by input (for example "By the end of next month I will have had X hours of exposure to the language")? Do you follow certain standards given by official language examinations (CAE, CPE, DELF/DALF...)? If you tend to concentrate on the output, how do you measure the outcome? And how do you decide which topics to concentrate on? Any inspiration is greatly appreciated :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6002 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 4 11 October 2010 at 10:07pm | IP Logged |
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I avoid SMART in language, because the M messes you up.
It is very very difficult to measure language. What is easy to measure is vocabulary. If you start trying to measure, you'll likely fall into the trap of memorising large numbers of words, instead of properly learning the language. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Chill Diglot Groupie Japan Joined 5156 days ago 68 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French | Message 3 of 4 12 October 2010 at 10:18am | IP Logged |
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Goal setting has worked very well for me when I have applied it to time, whether minimum time spent on single sessions or the number of days I will do something in a row without break. Daily habits are established in about 30 days, so that is an excellent number to go for.
What has worked for me better than SMART is Dr. Richard Bolstad`s SPECIFY goalsetting model. You might find it good for you as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5222 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 4 of 4 12 October 2010 at 12:21pm | IP Logged |
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I agree with Chill about goals being applied to time. I like to set aside a specific amount of time per day, or per week, for language study. I really try to keep away from setting goals for x number of words per day or x number of lessons per week. I have tried this in the past and it hasn't worked for me. Particularly because it is difficult to know how much time is required to learn any given set of words or lessons.
This is personally what I do; and, for the most part, it works for me. I set aside 2-3 hours a days studying Mandarin. 30 min. vocabulary, 1 hr. lesson (which includes learning grammar, doing exercises, etc.), 30 min. reading (a book, a webpage, newspaper, etc.), 1 hr. listening (TV, movie, podcast, news, etc.). I live in the country of my target language, so the speaking comes at a different time. Whatever I learn during the time is what I learn, I try not to worry about x number of anything. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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