Learning how to learn

1. SHEIDA KARAGAH
Language learning
strategies

2. Specific actions taken by the learner to make learning
easier, faster, more enjoyable, more self-directed,
more effective, and more transferrable to new
situations.

3. Skills and strategies
A distinction sometimes made between a skill and a
strategies .
Learning strategies are at a level above skills.
Learning strategies are executive processes which
manage and co-ordinate skills.
Studies of successful and unsuccessful learners show
that people who succeed in learning have developed
a range of strategies to select those that are most
appropriate for a particular problem

4. Language learning strategies (oxford 1990)
Direct way: operations concerned with ,memorizing ,
inducing rules , guessing meaning, and rehearsal
contribute directly to the learning of the language at
a cognitive level. They are the mental processes.

5. Language learning strategies (oxford 1990)
Indirect way: bringing us into closer contact with the
target language .gives us more input of the language
or increased opportunity to try out the language with
other people.

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attention