ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some ideas to help you develop your approaches to learning and studying a language so that you make the best progress possible. Becoming an effective language learner depends both on how you approach your learning and on the knowledge you acquire. Whatever your mode of study, the strategies you adopt are crucial in helping you to progress. The kinds of strategies you choose will also need to reflect what you want to get out of your study. You may be learning a language in order to talk with other speakers of the language or you may wish to improve your ability to read texts in that language.
