Metacognitive Strategies

Metacognitive Strategies

1. Imput-related factors

   • Samples of L2 are coded for a range of physical and linguistic characteristics
     • Frequency
       • How often the item occurs in the input
         • Frequency is argued to play a large role in shaping language acquisition for both L1 and L2 (Schmitz, 2010)
     • Salience
       • How easy the feature is to hear
     • Redundancy
       • If the item is essential or not, for conveying meaning
   • Lexical and semantic contexts in wich the feature occurs

2. Learner - related factors: Associative learning

   • Construction based
     • Morphological, Syntactic and Lexical
       • Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse functions
   • Rational
     • Language representations in the mind predict linguistic constructions
   • Exemplor - driven
     • Learners determine structure from language usage, out of the learner's experiences of the language
   • Dialectic
     • Aspects that cause L2 problems (Transfer) are mitigate by interactions with other speakers or teachers