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