Learning Strategies in Foreign and Second Language by Ernesto Macaro PDF

By Ernesto Macaro

An exceptionally lucid e-book that combines discursive prose with workouts, questions and activates for mirrored image. each one theoretical element is supported through a completely defined instance. The publication makes a speciality of different suggestions that individuals use to benefit languages and indicates instructor easy methods to (a) educate students in these thoughts and (b) adapt their instructing to derive the best make the most of each one procedure.

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We can at least try to 36 THE LEARNER'S STRATEGIES AND THE TEACHER'S STRATEGIES discover the 'reality' of what is happening. Researchers have tried to do this by doing the following: 1. Learners have been asked, for example, in oral interviews, which strategies they use in general, or which strategies they use when attempting a particular task. 2. Learners have been asked, by using questionnaires, whether and to what extent they use particular strategies. 3. Learners have been observed while they work at their language learning tasks.

THE LEARNER'S STRATEGIES AND THE TEACHER'S STRATEGIES 31 Aptitude, learning styles and beliefs about language learning It is difficult to separate these three themes (see Ellis 1994: 541 for a concise discussion of this). If, as the literature suggests, aptitude and learning styles are 'fixed', then if we were to discover that effective strategy use was directly linked to either of these learner attributes, it would be fruitless to try to train students to use strategies. Fortunately, this does not seem to be the case.

2. Why should you be interseted in learner starties? 3 . How can learner stragegies be categorized? 4 . How might you or (an outside researcher) find out what s trategies your students are using, how often and in what w ay? 5. What things might be restricting your students from using more strategies and more effectively? 6. In what areas does the literature on learner strategies feel reasonably eoaftdbat? If you found that learner strategies were something new to you, don't feel that you have in any way been at fault in not 'keeping up with the latest developments'.

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