Brown, H. D. (1989). A practical guide to language learning: A fifteen-week program of strategies for success. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Based on empirical research, each chapter highlights strategies that students need to pay attention to while they are studying a foreign language and contains a series of practical activities. The strategies include:

• goal-setting
• developing self-confidence
• calculated risk-taking,
• cooperative learning
• resisting direct translation to L1

The book can be used to supplement a language course. (75 pp.)