Do you us any software (free or otherwise) to create personal study plans and to monitor progress of your language learning ?
In particular I would like to record:
- regular study blocks repeating every week
- ability to assign them to main study tasks: reading, writing, listening and oral
- ability to assign them to sub tasks, for example to grammatical themes
- to use colour coding
- to record detail e.g. do exercise 3.1 in book X
Then I would like to see monitoring of progress
- task complete or not (possibly with %)
- ability to reschedule tasks
- graphical progress representation
Is there anything you found particularly useful and what are your criteria ?
What is your language goal ?
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Goals should be definable with specific results executed within specific timescales, to stand the best chance of success.
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Saying, for example, “I want to be fluent in Italian” doesn’t really help. What does “fluent” mean ? Do you want to be there next year, or after 10 years ?
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Rephrasing it as “I want to be able to read an article in the English newspaper “The Times” and to understand 80% of the words, by 30 June 2017” provides the basis of a learning plan.
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The goal should be divisible into smaller “sub-goals”, again with measurable actions and timescales e.g. “I will read one article in The Times each day and underline 10 verbs that I do not know to look them up in a dictionary” . This will set up a precise task to be carried out each day. I can then follow that up with “progress checking” sub-goals e.g “I will count the number of verbs in an article once a week, the number that I don’t know and the number I know” and compare my progress week by week.
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As you progress and achieve main goals and sub-goals, then you can add new ones or change existing ones.
