Learning Strategies Assignment
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Presentation of the assignment Page 3 Question 1 Page 4 Question 2 Page 6 Question 3 Page 7 Conclusion Page 8 Bibliography Page 9
SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT:
LEARNING STRATEGIES
Assignment:
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Principio del formulario
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Under point 3.3.7 Issues in Strategy Instruction (in your written material) the following questions are considered as crucial before implementing strategy training with students: • Should the strategy instruction be short-term or long term? How long should it last? A class? A term? A year? At regular intervals? Etc. • Should the treatment of strategies be implicit (or “blind”) or should it be explicit ( “informed” or “strategy-plus-control”)? Or should it be a combination of both approaches? • Should the teacher try to cover a comprehensive list of different strategies, or should the focus be on a limited number of strategies?
Bearing in mind these questions as well as the rest of the material studied in this subject, consider the following task that has been adapted from R.Oxford ( “Language Learning Strategies: What every teacher should know”. 1990:211 ).
An ancient proverb says, “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime”.
1. Explain what this saying means to you in the area of language learning and teaching. Give examples from your own experience, justifying these and backing them up with information from the subject and from your outside readings.
Now consider Tyacke and Mendelsohn’s (1986:178) response to this proverb:
“But just as there are many different kinds of rods, different kinds of bait and different fishing locations, all of which offer a variety of choices and experiences, there are different ways of learning language.”
2. What does this mean to you? How does it affect what you think of the proverb as applied to strategy training?
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INDEX
Presentation of the assignment Page 3 Question 1 Page 4 Question 2 Page 6 Question 3 Page 7 Conclusion Page 8 Bibliography Page 9
SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT:
LEARNING STRATEGIES
Assignment:
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Principio del formulario
[pic][pic][pic]This assignment consists of three parts.
Under point 3.3.7 Issues in Strategy Instruction (in your written material) the following questions are considered as crucial before implementing strategy training with students: • Should the strategy instruction be short-term or long term? How long should it last? A class? A term? A year? At regular intervals? Etc. • Should the treatment of strategies be implicit (or “blind”) or should it be explicit ( “informed” or “strategy-plus-control”)? Or should it be a combination of both approaches? • Should the teacher try to cover a comprehensive list of different strategies, or should the focus be on a limited number of strategies?
Bearing in mind these questions as well as the rest of the material studied in this subject, consider the following task that has been adapted from R.Oxford ( “Language Learning Strategies: What every teacher should know”. 1990:211 ).
An ancient proverb says, “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime”.
1. Explain what this saying means to you in the area of language learning and teaching. Give examples from your own experience, justifying these and backing them up with information from the subject and from your outside readings.
Now consider Tyacke and Mendelsohn’s (1986:178) response to this proverb:
“But just as there are many different kinds of rods, different kinds of bait and different fishing locations, all of which offer a variety of choices and experiences, there are different ways of learning language.”
2. What does this mean to you? How does it affect what you think of the proverb as applied to strategy training?
Bibliography: Bearing in mind these questions as well as the rest of the material studied in this subject, consider the following task that has been adapted from R.Oxford ( “Language Learning Strategies: What every teacher should know”. 1990:211 ). O´Malley, J. M. & A. U. Chamot (1995). Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition. UK: Cambridge University Press Oxford, R Cohen, A. (1998): Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language. Harlow, Essex: Longman.