Unit 13
Methods to help learners
develop learning strategies
Methods to help learners
develop learning strategies
Definitions with an asterisk * are revised from TKT Modules 1,2,3 Glossary
a piece of writing that is not yet finished, and may be changed.
A writer drafts a piece of writing – that is, they write it for the first time but it is not exactly as it will be when it is finished and they might change it or have to make corrections.
Teachers encourage learners to begin with a quick first draft so that they can get their ideas down on paper, then go back and correct and improve the text.
A writer drafts a piece of writing – that is, they write it for the first time but it is not exactly as it will be when it is finished and they might change it or have to make corrections.
Teachers encourage learners to begin with a quick first draft so that they can get their ideas down on paper, then go back and correct and improve the text.
When a piece of writing is changed with the intention of improving it. A writer's first draft may be re-drafted.
To say or write something that you have read or heard but using different words.
Learners who are preparing to study at university need to practise paraphrasing so that when they do research they are able to put the ideas they read in books into their own words.
Learners who are preparing to study at university need to practise paraphrasing so that when they do research they are able to put the ideas they read in books into their own words.
the way a learner chooses to learn new subject content.
(e.g., memorising or drawing images are common vocabulary learning strategies, or undelining key content vocabulary, making associations between L1 and the target language)
(e.g., memorising or drawing images are common vocabulary learning strategies, or undelining key content vocabulary, making associations between L1 and the target language)
thinking about our thinking or about how we think
Examples of learning strategies
Every day we work hard to encourage our learners to improve their learning
Every day we work hard to encourage our learners to improve their learning
- selecting and setting learning goals
- deciding on criteria to measure how well a task can be done
- analysing the task, its purpose and what has to be done
- working out timing of stages
*predicting meanings of content vocabulary and predicting text content
*guessing meanings of new words
*asking for clarification
*paraphrasing
*drafting work
*risk taking and experimenting with new concepts and language
*using some L1 for specific purpose (e.g. checking a concept, looking up a bilingual dictionary, checking meaning of vocabulary with a peer)
*note taking
*organising work
*personalising learning
DURING A TASK
- deciding how to remember new words and concepts
- making visual prompts to aid memory
- reviewing work alone or in small groups
- exchanging work with a partner and asking for feedback
- comparing work with previous work and deciding how it has improved
- editing work
- summarising work
AFTER A TASK
Learning strategies
Metacognition = thinking about thinking
a learning strategy
a learning strategy
- preparing and planning for learning (activating prior knowledge)
- selecting and using strategies
- monitoring learning
- integrating strategies (content and language)
- evaluating learning (content and language)
In CLIL programmes
a double challenge:
V learning strategies for learning about subject knowledge
V learning strategies for learning about the language of the curricular subject
V learning strategies for learning about the language of the curricular subject
Subject specific vocabulary
Literacy
Defintions are taken from TKT: CLIL Handbook, p. 24
Literacy
Defintions are taken from TKT: CLIL Handbook, p. 24
playscript сценарий
recount воспоминания, рассказ, повествование
non-fiction нехудожественный
narrative повествовательный, повествование, рассказ, повесть, изложение фактов
anthology сборник, альманах, антология, хрестоматия
recount воспоминания, рассказ, повествование
non-fiction нехудожественный
narrative повествовательный, повествование, рассказ, повесть, изложение фактов
anthology сборник, альманах, антология, хрестоматия