Program Coordinators Jeff Magoto Pacific 121 Tel: (541) 346-4319 ylc@uoregon.edu Nilay Sevinc Pacific 114 Tel: (541) 346-1543 flstudy@uoregon.edu Wondering how you can apply your language study? Check out this booklet (right) filled with scholarship, internship, and other language opportunities.

Keys to Success

1) Come to class with a question, a dialogue, or text; use your classmates, tutors, and others for daily practice.
2) Do something in (not just with) the language everyday; reflect (in your portfolio) what you've learned and how you've learned it.
3) Get familiar with the resources at Yamada.
4) Get lots of input (see a film or watch the news once a week.)
5) Pay attention to meaning more than form (focus on understanding, rather than memorizing.)

Out-of-Class Practice

Out-of-class communication is possible through your Blackboard course web site (voiceboards and chat). The Language Exchange may help you find a conversation partner; activities sponsored by the ISA and OIP are good ways of meeting international students at UO and getting exposed to many different cultures.

Links: Academic Resources for Self-Study Language Learning & Testing

UCLA Language Materials Project Index Pages
URL: http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/
Comprehensive database of LCTLS: language profiles, learning centers, and materials for instruction. Excellent resource for Swahili and Turkish.

* Foreign Language Achievement Tests - FLATS
URL: http://flats.byu.edu/test_info.php?x=6
Students looking to receive OUS credit (and fulflill their BA requirements) can take one of these tests.

* Council Net
URL: http://www.councilnet.org/
Foreign language, language learning, language teaching, Council, NCOLCTL, LCTL, Less Commonly Taught Languages. Includes links to LangNet, the U.S. government's initiative for selfstudy language learning.

* CARLA: Less Commonly Taught Languages
URL: http://carla.umn.edu//lctl
Excellent resource for both teachers and learners of LCTLs. Includes a database of where LCTLS are taught in North America.

* Autonomy and Independence in Language Learning
http://ec.hku.hk/autonomy/

* Language Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madion
URL: http://languageinstitute.wisc.edu
Resources on strategies for better language learning, learning styles, and much more. Excellent resource for Swahili and Indonesian.

* Less Commonly Taught Languages at Michigan
URL: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/saa/information/degrees/lesslang.html

* Special Language Program at Stanford
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/SLP/index.html

Self-Study Language Program •Yamada Language Center
121 Pacific Hall • 1236 University of Oregon • Eugene, OR 97403-1236
(541) 346-1543 • email: flstudy@uoregon.edu