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Styles and Strategies. Part II. Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic styles:. Visual: Reading and studying charts, drawings and graphic information Auditory: Listening to lectures and audiotapes Kinesthetic : Demonstrations and physical activity involving bodily movement.
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Styles and Strategies Part II
Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic styles: • Visual: Reading and studying charts, drawings and graphic information • Auditory: Listening to lectures and audiotapes • Kinesthetic: • Demonstrations and physical activity involving • bodily movement
Autonomy awareness and action • Autonomy Students take charge of their learning (by initiating oral production, solving problems, practice using language in groups in and outside classrooms)
In addition Awareness means: Becoming aware of the process of learning and the conscious applications of appropriate strategies Action: to take action of the strategies available
Strategies Styles are the different characteristics that differentiate one individual from another Strategies are the specific techniques one employs to solve a problem.
There are two kinds of strategies: 1) Learning strategies: (input- processing- storage- retrieval- taking messages from others) dealing with receptive domain of intake 2) Communication strategies: (output- production of meaning- how to deliver messages to others) verbal and nonverbal productive communication of information
Characteristics of good language learners: Organize information about language Creative and feel for the language ,make opportunities of practicing language Find their own way of learning Learn to live with uncertainty Use memory strategies to recall Make errors work for them Use linguistic knowledge of 1L to learn 2L Use contextual cues to comprehend Make intelligent guesses Learn language as a whole Learn production strategies to fill gaps Learn tricks to keep conversations going Learn styles of speech and writing
Communication strategies • Conscious plans to solve problems in order to reach communicative goal Avoidance strategies Compensatory strategies
Compensatory strategies This is to compensate missing knowledge Prefabricated patterns Memorizing phrases or sentences without internalized knowledge of their components Code- switching The use of a first or second language within a stream of speech in teh second language. Appeal to authority A direct appeal for help 9 teacher- bilingual dictionary
Strategies-based instructionSBI SBI is the application of both learning and communication strategies to classroom learning
SBI is effective if students • Understand the strategy • Perceive it to be effective • Do not consider its implementation to be overly difficult
SBI IMPLEMENTATION INVOLVES SOME STEPS: • identifying learners’ styles and potential strategies (self-check questionnaire) • Incorporating SBI in communicative language courses and classrooms • Providing extra class assistance for learners