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This tutorial is an introduction to help you build your language learning journey, in broad terms. It will also allow you to fully understand how the EDOlang platform works.

To begin, we advise you to diagnose your situation. This is an initial self-assessment which will help you identify your learner personality, your level, your needs and your skills.

Thanks to this assessment, you will be able to set learning objectives.

In order to achieve these objectives, EDOlang provides you with a set of services and resources:

• workshops on cultural, linguistic or methodological points ;
• thematic conversations in the language you are learning ;
• individual interviews with an advisor from one of the language; resource centers to support you in building your learning ;
• linguistic exchanges with a native speaker – also called tandems – ;
• a catalogue of digital resources
• and physical but also proposals for events that offer you the opportunity to practice a language outside the university.

To make the best use of these services and resources, we advise you to rely on a support tool throughout your learning: this is the logbook.

You are invited to note and analyze in your logbook all the activities you carry out to learn a language.

This ongoing self-assessment process helps you manage your learning by taking stock of your objectives, selecting the most relevant strategies for you or directing you to services and resources suited to your project.

Your teachers or an advisor are there to support you in this reflection if you wish.

Let’s now see how to implement this approach within the EDOlang platform.

As you have understood, the logbook plays a central role in your learning journey.

It is through him that you will go through to carry out your initial diagnosis and develop your project along the way.

Information and tools to support you in your initial self-assessment can be found in the “me and language learning” section.

If you would like to benefit from EDOlang services to work on your goals, click on “services to progress” on the home page. Log in to be able to register for the different services. You can either see the calendar corresponding to each type of service or have an overview of all the services in the overall calendar.

To discover the digital resources and physical resources accessible in the language resource centers, click on “resource catalogue” on the home page.

Once you have used a resource or service, we advise you to go to your logbook.

It is in the “my activities” section that you can record and analyze what you have done to work on your goals.

There are two tutorials specifically about the logbook, don’t hesitate to watch them!

After analyzing an activity, you can return to your objectives and continue your learning process.

That’s it, that’s it for this general presentation of the construction of your learning path on EDOlang!

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First, you can set priorities. So, everyone has their own priorities. So for example, if your priority is to be able to speak well, then you can very well set yourself small time slots where you really work on your expression. It could be workshop sessions at a Language Resource Center, conversation sessions or you could very well find friends to talk with. It’s completely personal, it depends on everyone.

Afterwards, it would be ideal for you to prepare a small program based on your availability.

If you know what time of the week you are available, you can set two or three slots that suit you well.

This brings us to the subject of regularity, which is a very important issue in language learning, so it would be good if you tried to really stick to your program and every week you said to yourself, today I’m going to work on my language and so it’s important to really focus on that.

Regarding the slots, you can very well choose slots of 20 minutes, 30 minutes, or even 1 hour, but we know today that it is preferable to choose 3 slots of 20 minutes, rather than one one hour block..

You can also ask yourself the question of taking notes. It is up to you to see if you will need other additional supports such as a notebook or your computer where you can write down the new vocabulary words you are learning or of course, any other support that seems appropriate to you.

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In this tutorial, we will present the different “services to progress” offered within EDOlang and show you how you can use them.

The services, like the resources in the catalog, allow you to work on your learning objectives. You can see all the services offered by clicking on “services for progress” on the EDOlang home page: there are workshops, conversations, advice interviews, tandems and “going out to learn” events ”. We will detail these different services.

As specified in this description, the workshops are one-hour sessions in small groups and can focus on cultural, linguistic or methodological points. They may or may not relate to a specific language.

Conversations are one-hour small group sessions. They allow you to practice the language learned with a speaker of that language. A theme may or may not be proposed in advance.

Counseling meetings are 30-minute individual sessions. The advisor can support you at different points in your learning, to help you, for example, identify the most useful strategies for you, analyze the way you use learning resources, self-evaluate, etc.

There are schedules for workshops, conversations, and advisory interviews. You can either click on the specific calendars for each service and filter by language and resource center, or click on the global calendar and further filter by service type. You can also display services by list.

When you have found a service that interests you, you can click on it for additional information and register if there are places available or contact the provider if necessary. If you change your mind, consider unsubscribing to make room for someone else !

Services are generally posted several weeks in advance but registration is only possible 15 days before the date of the service offered.

Tandems, for their part, are linguistic and cultural exchanges between two people of different languages ​​where each learns the language of the other.

Finally, you also have the opportunity to practice languages ​​for free outside the university as part of events organized by the Erasmus Student Network association, during the Language Café or even English Pub Night evenings.

You will find all the useful information on this page as well as in the news on the EDOlang home page.  

That’s it, that’s it for the presentation of the services and their use! If you have any questions, you can find out at one of the language resource centers.

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The logbook is your language learning diary: you write down precisely and regularly what you do to learn one or more languages..

It is a personal tool, to which only you and your teachers have access.

You can use it within your lessons but also outside to manage your learning.

At the University of Lorraine, your logbook is digital and you access it via the EDOlang platform

Once on EDOlang, click on “my logbook” then “connect”. [break]

Your logbook includes 3 sections that we will present to you: “my activities”, “me and language learning” and “my profile”.

The aim is to help you reflect on your learning.
Broad topic !

To do this, we advise you to adopt the following approach :

• you can start by self-evaluating, that is, taking stock of your situation. [break]

This step corresponds to the “me and language learning” section in your logbook.

Then, you can fill out your profile by choosing the main language you will work on. This choice will be useful for selecting your learning resources from the EDOlang catalogue.

Now you are ready to embark on activities to achieve the goals you have set for yourself. You are free to do whatever you want! Use the services offered by language resource centers or work on resources from the catalog, the choice is yours! The idea is to comment on each of your activities in the “my activities” section of your logbook to evaluate their usefulness. If you are accompanied by a teacher, he will react to your comments in your logbook. To find out how to fill out your logbook, watch this tutorial.

Finally, we suggest that you take stock of your work. Did you achieve your goals? For what ? What was positive or negative? What are you going to do next?

To summarize, your logbook is your learning companion: it accompanies you from your initial self-assessment, for the definition of your difficulties and objectives, in the analysis of your learning activities and for your final assessment !

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