This guidebook is intended for anyone who is learning a language through formal or informal study. It was written with two underlying premises:

Study is essential to language learning
The responsibility for language study is primarily the learners.

The purpose of this guidebook is to support language study at the secondary and postsecondary levels. It was written to help language learners achieve several goals:

Understand what it means to study a language
Develop a mindset and habits for language study
Organize themselves, their environment, and their time for success
Implement study strategies
Capitalize on readily available resources
Become self-directed as a language learner
Develop a Personal Language Study Plan

Three underlying influences support the scope and sequence of the guidebook:

the Communicative Approach to language teaching and learning
the distinction between ""learning"" and ""acquiring"" a language
the authors' conceptual framework, the Language Study H.U.B., that takes a wholistic view of language study

This guidebook can be used as a

Textbook to support language learners in the development and application of study and organizational strategies
Supplementary text for language methods courses
Classroom reference book for language teachers
Book study for language educators

Studying a World Language - spiral, Engelska, 2021