Language Learning Strategies Workshop (NHK Culture Center)!Brent A. Jones!

Konan University, Hirao School of Management!!Introduction - This interactive lecture and workshop was designed to share some of my ideas on best practices for learning a new language. This handout and other resources will be available on my website at www.brentjones.com.!!(1) What’s going on here? (Write one sentence explaining what you think is happening.) !![ ]!!Tip #1 _____________________________________________________________________!!(2) Talk with a partner and find three places you have both been and three places your partner has been that you haven’t.!!We have both been to __________________ , __________________ & __________________ .!!I haven’t been to __________________ , __________________ or __________________ .!!Tip #2 _____________________________________________________________________!!(3) What do these acronyms mean?!!NGSL = N _______________ G _______________ S _______________ L _______________!!NGST = N _______________ A _______________ W _______________ L _______________!!(4) On average, how many times do we need to meet a new word to acquire it?!!My guess is _________ times.! ! ! Experts say _________ times!!Tip #3 _____________________________________________________________________!!(4) What are two topics/themes for which you would like to make your own corpus?!![ ] & [ ]!!Tip #4 _____________________________________________________________________!!(5) What questions do you have about language learning?!!Tip #5 _____________________________________________________________________!!

Websites & Online Tools!!Lonely Planet - http://www.lonelyplanet.com/!!New General Service List - http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/!!New Academic Word List - http://www.newacademicwordlist.org/!!British National Corpus - http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/!!BBC Learning English - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/!!Voice of America: Learning English - http://learningenglish.voanews.com/!!NHK World - http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/!!Audio files for Scholastic ELT Readers - http://www.robwaring.org/el/scholastic.htm!!Repeat After Us - http://www.repeatafterus.com/!!Quizlet - http://quizlet.com/!!Weird News Stories!Fortean Times Magazine - http://www.forteantimes.com/!!Weird Asia News - http://www.weirdasianews.com/!!Mental Floss - http://www.mentalfloss.com/!!Snopes - http://snopes.com/daily/!!Huffington Post Weird News - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/weird-news/!!Topix – Offbeat News - http://www.topix.net/news/weird!!Reuters – Oddly Enough - http://www.reuters.com/news/oddlyEnough!!Fark - http://www.fark.com/!!The Smoking Gun - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/!!The Daily Mash - http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ !Websites & Online Tools!!