LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES

LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES

1. SOCIAL

   • Facilitate learning with others and help learners understand the culture of the language they are learning.
     • Asking questions for clarification or confirmation, asking for help, learning about social or cultural norms and values and studying together outside of class
       • Are crucial for communicative language learning

2. METACOGNITIVE

   • Help learners manage: (1) themselves as learners, (2) the general learning process and (3) specific learning tasks
     • -Managing the learning process in general -Establishing general goals for language learning -Help learners deal effectively with a given language task

3. COGNITIVE

   • Make and strengthen associations between new and alreadyknown information
     • -Guessing from context -Analysing, reasoning inductively and deductively -Taking systematic notes and reorganising information

4. AFFECTIVE

   • identifying one's feelings, becoming aware of the learning circumstances or tasks that evoke them Interacting with others.
     • Can help learners deal with anxiety through actions such as deep breathing, laughter, positive self-talk
       • Suggests additional strategies, including generating useful diversions or visualising success and feeling good about it.

5. MNEMONIC

   • Help learners link a new item with something known
     • Memorising information: by sounds, by body movement, by location
       • Relate one thing to another in a simplistic, stimulus response manner

6. COMPENSATORY For Speaking & Writing

   • Help learners make up for missing knowledge when using English in oral or written communication,
     • For SPEAKING: Include using synonyms, circumlocution and gesturing to suggest the meaning
       • For WRITING: Encompass some of the same actions, such as synonym use or circumlocution