Category:Strategies in foreign language learning

'''Strategies in modern foreign language teaching

Les strategies dans l'enseignement des langues modernes'''

Possible breakdown for PHZH Phase 08

1. What types of strategies are there (eg. cognitive, metacognitive,...)

There are over two dozen classification systems - here's a good article from Oxford (1994) 

On Ilias, there is the list of specific strategies from Explorers.

2. How do we get preservice and inservice teachers to notice the strategies they use to learn an FL? Jabberwocky exercise (on ILIAS)

3. How do we train preservice and inservice teachers to work on strategy building with their own elementary school students?

Go to the Annenberg Foundation webpages  Teaching Foreign Languages K-12 Workshop. Watch Delivering the Message and note any useful strategies the students use and how the teachers give them tips. You can also watch excerpts from a Video Library of Classroom Practices to do the same. These are an all grade levels.

4. Are there any language specific strategies (eg. French, English, Italian)? I don't think so, which is why we need to combine our resources here!</li></ul>

5. Are there any level specific strategies (things that lower-elementary kids are not ready for that upper-elementary and secondary students are)?

Well, children of different ages have access to different resources - the older the child, the more the resources (eg. more contact outside the classroom, ability to use the computer, eg. http://www.leo.org). Older learners use a wider range of strategies. This is well documented, I have to scan in some articles.</li></ul>

6. Does language awareness play a role here? (eg. encouraging kids to think about what they know in another language helps them decode a text).

7. What’s the difference between language awareness and metalinguistic awareness? Does strategy building enhance these? Does the training of strategies 'enhance' these?

8. There are different types of strategies for the teacher as well: Elicitation strategies</li> Classroom management strategies</li></ul>

Useful links

From Longwood College:

From CARLA:

From Missouri State: