Different learning strategies
"The mental and communicative procedures learners use in order to learn and use language" (Numan, 2011)
Putting things together that are similar
Predicting what is to come in the learning process
Examples: Read the title in a book chapter and prdict what the contents will be.
For example: Make students learn alist of animal names and then make them calssify them on species.
Example: read a conversation and learn the present perfect through it.
showing main ideas in text form
Using what you nknow to learn something to new
writing important information in your own words
Numan, D. (2011). Teaching English to Young Learners. Anaheim University Press.
Sharing ideas to learn with your peers.
Example: work in groups to complete sentences exercises.
Pretending to be someone else to act out a situation
Example: you can make students act romeo and juliet
Using expressions to start conversations and then keep them going
Example: give specific phrases to students to use in a conversation
Doing controlled exercises to improve knowledge
Example: listening to conversations and practicing with a partner
Using the surrounding context to guess the meaing of unkown words
Picking out the most important points in summary form
Listening to key information without trying to understsand every word
Example: listening to a conversation and figure out the topic
Reading quickly to get the general idea of a text
Example: read something and decide wther ts a newspaper or an article