The good language learner

The good language learner

1. GLLs become actively involved in the language learning process, that is, they generally adopt a very active role in the classroom..

2. GLLs take advantage of all the opportunities they have to practice the language. They have good techniques to practice listening, speaking, reading and writing.

3. GLLs elaborate an awareness of language both as a formal, grammatical system, and as a means of communication.

4. GLLs gradually develop the new language into a system and learn to think in it.

5. GLLs accept and are able to deal with the affective demands of leaarning an L2.

6. GLLs are like good detectives.

7. Naiman et al. (1978) also identified other techniques used by the learners in specific situations, such as repeating aloud after the teacher, listening to the radio and TV, reading and following the rules as presented by grammar books or textbooks.

8. Ellis concludes by saying that “taken together, the list of good learning characteristics reflects the social, cognitive and affective factors that have been seen to be important in SLA. (1985:123)

9. Good readers are characterized by using their knowledge of the world, evaluating and monitoring their guesses and having a good self-image of themselves as readers.

10. Unsuccessful readers are described as having a poor self-concept of themselves as readers, restricting themselves to the word level, skipping words on few occasions and going to the dictionary almost mechanically.

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