Learning strategies

Annotations:

• Types of strategies contributing directly to learning

1. Cognitive

   Annotations:

   • Strategies that involve analysis, transformation or synthesis of information
   1. Grouping Strategies
      1. Relationship beween words
         1. Certain
         2. Criteria
         3. Nouns
         4. Topics
         5. Similarities
         6. Categories
   2. Creating associations strategies

      Annotations:

      • They help students retrieve words from memory and to understand the text more easily.
      1. Build words chains
         1. add words they associated with the previous word.
   3. New words un a context strategy
      1. Use context clues to discover the meaning of a word.
   4. Semantic mapping strategy
      1. understand concepts with graphical representation
   5. Physical response strategie
      1. Learn with playful games
         1. It helps and supports memory
            1. Students can be connected any other cognitive strategy.
         2. Students must respond with the correct movement.
            1. It is very effective and advisable with young students
   6. Summarizing Strategy
      1. Reduce the text
         1. Most important information
            1. Main idea
            2. Express it though in a simple way.
            3. which ideas can be omitted
   7. Sequencing strategy
      1. Helps students
         1. Putting events in logical order
            1. Demostrate the understanding of the text.
         2. To understand the text
            1. can be done pictures sequencing or word /sentence /paragraph sequencing.
2. Metacognitive

   Annotations:

   •   Help learners regulate , or supervise learning by self – management, planning,  setting priorities, or establishing goals.   
   1. Centering your learning
      1. Identifying a focus
         1. Overviewing and linking with already known material.
            1. The new vocabulary or material link them to learner´s previous knowledge
      2. Paying attention
         1. Directed attention
            1. Globally attentive to the task and avoiding distractions.
         2. Sellective attentión
            1. Involves noticing particular details or elements
               1. Pronunciation Grammar Vocabulary punctuation Sentences construction
      3. Delaying speechproduction to focus on listening
         1. postponing speaking
            1. concentrating on listening comprehension
               1. Before feeling comfortable to speak.
   2. Arranging and planning your learning.
      1. Aim to organize learning.
         1. Finding out about language learning
         2. Organizing or creating the most appropriate physical environment
         3. Setting goals and objectives in each of the skill areas.
         4. Identifying the purpose of a language task
            1. Learners to focus their attention on the right aspects.
   3. Evaluating your learning
      1. Self monitoring
         1. Correct personal mistakes
            1. ALERT - obsessed with correcting every mistake will destroy communication, which is the major objective
      2. Self – evaluating, or measuring
         1. The overall language progress or achievements in one of the four language skills
   4. •Connecting new information to the old one. • selecting deliberate thinking strategies. • Planning , monitoring the process oflearning, correcting errors, analyzing the effectiveness of learning strategies and evaluating thinking processes