Back on Track!

Well, I have passed the French test and I can go back to reading and writing on language learning. I have read and studied this book years ago on my fourth year of studying English language and literature, during a "Language Teaching" course. I remember how excited and surprised I was when reading the chapter on the characteristics of a good language learner realizing I had almost all those attributes and I was following the rule of thumb. Now that I am reading this fifth edition, which includes the new theories on language learning, I am thinking to capitalize on these new theories in my book on best language learning strategies which is also going to be based on my experience in language learning.

What I like the most about this book and am going to benefit from is the end of each chapter which is dedicated to three subsequent sections: questions for study, suggested reading and journal entry the last of which is just the kind of gem I am looking for. This part is going to help me shape my thoughts and my experiences in language learning in accordance with each new topic and theories I learn about in the foregoing chapter and write them down in a journal type entry possibly in this blog. I am sure it could facilitate the process of writing my book to a great extent, since finally I can make more sense of all that have been going on in my mind whenever I think about my strategies during the years learning French and English.

Right now I have opened a file in my computer for a while in which I have determined roughly the major sections of my book and have contributed to some chapters every now and then when I have remembered a strategy or two. I have also written a kind of a foreword or introduction in a moment of sheer passion and belief in what I am going to do! But I have not had a serious plan. Since I have started reading this book and finding about the excellent section at the end of each chapter, I have come to the conclusion that it is about time to get more serious on this and work more vigorously and according to a plan.

Now that I come to think of it, I knew that I need exactly this book to boost me forward on this path, because the author and I had some common grounds on the best strategies to use in learning a new language!