Foreign Language Study Tips

By Kevin Olson

We reached out to Spanish teacher Kevin Olson for some advice about learning a foreign language. Here are his foreign language study tips (some of which can be helpful when studying in general).

Dyslexic students should go into college knowing their learning styles and a handful of study habits that work well for them.

The following was written by a very ambitious, intelligent, and confident dyslexic law student named Shaun Sanders, who got in touch with us via Reddit in May of 2013 and offered to share his remarkable story.

Experienced teacher Joan Brennan, wanting to help her students focus on the texts they were trying to read so that they would comprehend them better, invented the Reading Focus Card.

Here is an article from the Online Education Database chock full of ways -- 100 of them to be exact -- that your iPod can be used to help you learn and study.

In the article by Benedict Carey on The New York Times, Carey contradicts traditional study methods and questions why schools haven’t begun using proven, effective approaches.

In response to requests from UM students we can design a program that is based on your individual needs to help you tackle your course work.

Executive functioning involves being able to plan a task, change gears in the middle if need be, re-group, stay motivated, persevere, and complete the task.