developing comprehension skills - Reading more authentic material (magazines and newspapers etc.) outside class, listening to English radio/TV programmes outside class, asking people to repeat what they have said when you don’t’ understand., improving pronunciation - Learning the sounds and symbols in the phonemic chart, asking teachers and other students to correct your pronunciation, recording yourself and listening for pronunciation errors., becoming more independent - Using the internet to research language and vocabulary, using English-English dictionaries to research vocabulary, choosing an area of language or vocabulary to revise/learn and using resources to self-study., remembering new vocabulary - Saying new words in your head over and over again, writing new words down in your note book, writing new words down with a translation in your own language next to them, writing words down on separate cards and storing them in a box., dealing with words in texts and recordings that you don’t know - Guessing the meaning from context, looking words up in the dictionary, writing words down to ask someone about later., developing oral fluency - Speaking English only in class, speaking English whenever possible outside class, practise speaking for one minute on a topic without hesitating., learning new grammar - Practising the language as soon as you’ve learnt it, repeating different examples of the language, writing down the different grammatical components of the language, cutting up the different components and arranging them in the correct order.,

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