Predict: Good language learners predict, guess, pick up
on social and contextual clues, use selective attention, pay attention to only a
particular aspect of a lesson, ignore distracting information and pay attention
only to what they believe is important.
Prepare: Hard working learners prepare in advance. This make them do better. For example, a learner who writes down notes about what he or she wants to say, generally will excel in a speaking activity over a student who speaks with no preparation.
Expriement and Practice: Students, who experiment, are not concerned about their looks, do better. Students should focus on the task and try to accomplish it. Practice also plays a role in better learning, more comfort, and mastery. Learners who practice are better able to master the skill of language. Practice should be at the core of any real language class.
Monitor: Good learner monitor their language, monitoring refers to correction of one's speech for accuracy and pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and appropriateness. A learner who pays attention to both form and meaning is often the best language learner. Encourage your students to ask questions, learners who learn to ask questions to those around them and get answers to those questions are more likely to be successful.
Taking notes is another helpful strategy: Learners who write down what they hear and discuss are more likely to remember and are better able to retain.
Visualization/imagery is also another technique: Learners who relate new information to a visualization often perform better, especially at recall.
Finding an answer in multiple ways is a plus: Good language learners are able to find answers form dictionaries, teachers, students and other sources. They do not get information from just one source.
Connecting and playing: Good language learners can relate information such as new vocabulary to a physical action. And this helps deepen memory. A famous technique is play. Proficient language learners practice reordering a meaningful sentence by using words in a new way. They play with language.
Even if your learners never actively learn any of these strategies you can still encourage the use of them within your classroom. Help students predict, ask questions use imagery and play. Learners need to know not just what to learn, but how to learn. As a teacher, you are often a trail guide helping learners along a path with obstacles and choices. Remember that practice is an important part of language learning and that memorizing simply isn't enough. Adult learners of a language, are accustomed to looking smart. As learners are accustomed to looking smart, they often chose language learning strategies that avoid looking foolish and taking risks.
To put it in one list
Language Learning Strategies that good language learners employ:
Prepare: Hard working learners prepare in advance. This make them do better. For example, a learner who writes down notes about what he or she wants to say, generally will excel in a speaking activity over a student who speaks with no preparation.
Expriement and Practice: Students, who experiment, are not concerned about their looks, do better. Students should focus on the task and try to accomplish it. Practice also plays a role in better learning, more comfort, and mastery. Learners who practice are better able to master the skill of language. Practice should be at the core of any real language class.
Monitor: Good learner monitor their language, monitoring refers to correction of one's speech for accuracy and pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and appropriateness. A learner who pays attention to both form and meaning is often the best language learner. Encourage your students to ask questions, learners who learn to ask questions to those around them and get answers to those questions are more likely to be successful.
Taking notes is another helpful strategy: Learners who write down what they hear and discuss are more likely to remember and are better able to retain.
Visualization/imagery is also another technique: Learners who relate new information to a visualization often perform better, especially at recall.
Finding an answer in multiple ways is a plus: Good language learners are able to find answers form dictionaries, teachers, students and other sources. They do not get information from just one source.
Connecting and playing: Good language learners can relate information such as new vocabulary to a physical action. And this helps deepen memory. A famous technique is play. Proficient language learners practice reordering a meaningful sentence by using words in a new way. They play with language.
Even if your learners never actively learn any of these strategies you can still encourage the use of them within your classroom. Help students predict, ask questions use imagery and play. Learners need to know not just what to learn, but how to learn. As a teacher, you are often a trail guide helping learners along a path with obstacles and choices. Remember that practice is an important part of language learning and that memorizing simply isn't enough. Adult learners of a language, are accustomed to looking smart. As learners are accustomed to looking smart, they often chose language learning strategies that avoid looking foolish and taking risks.
To put it in one list
Language Learning Strategies that good language learners employ:
- Predicting – using social and contextual clues to guess at the topic
- Using selective attention – paying attention to only what seems important
- Preparing – thinking about what one wants to communicate in advance
- Looking ridiculous – being willing to look foolish in order to complete the task
- Practicing
- Monitoring – correcting one’s own speech for accuracy
- Asking questions
- Taking notes
- Using imagery – relating new information to a visualization
- Finding the answer in multiple ways
- Using physical response – relating new information to a physical action
- Playing
– experimenting with language
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