Language Learning strategy
- LS defined
- Why are LS important in L2/FL learning and teaching?
Classification of LLS
LLS research
- Identification procedures of learning strategies
- Terminology and classification of strategies
- The effects of learner characteristics on strategy use
- The effects of culture and context on strategy use
LLS instructions
- Explicit and integrated strategy instruction
- Language of instruction
- Transfer of strategies to new tasks
- Models for language learning strategy instruction
LLS in practice
- Listening strategies
- Speaking strategies
- Reading strategies
The English curriculum requires teachers to give students explicit instruction in reading strategies that will teach them to be more skillful and strategic readers. Students become better readers when they know why they are reading. Teach them to recognize when they are reading to be informed, reading for literary experience, or reading to perform a task, and help them to name, select, and apply strategies appropriate for each intent. The following strategies apply to reading in ALL content areas.see Reading Strategies
1. Reading Strategies with Lesson Plans
2. Reading Strategies for academic reading
- Writing strategies
Student need daily opportunities to work through their ideas in writing. They must understand that writing is a process, and that it is developmental. Guide students to work for precision, purposefulness, originality, and elegance in their writing. Focus instruction on the structure of the students' writing, the strategies students use in creating their written products, and the elements of style they employ.
1. Structural Components of Writing
2. Strategies to Support the Writing Process
3. Strategies For Developing Personal Style
Useful Links
- CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition ) one of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI National Language Resource Centers, whose role is to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively.