Second Language Acquisition
Step 5: Evaluate

Ready to assess your second language acquisition progress? Evaluate is the fifth and final step of the Daily Learning Cycle. Make this a joint assessment between you and your mentor about how the communication went. Do not leave this step out. It is essential to the learning process.

Here are some questions you might use. Were you able to use the sentences you learned? Were there things you did not know how to say or did not understand? Did you get a response you were not expecting? Did any part of the dialog seem to crumble? Talk about both your observations and your mentor’s, if he went along.

Periodically, you should also evaluate your overall progress to see how you are coming on your goals. In the past, language learning scales have been geared toward helping language teachers evaluate their students. Terry Marshall has created a language self-evaluation tool targeted at self-directed learners. See the Self-Rating Checklist.


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