Session 2

Tutor: Silvia Rovegno

• Children as language learners

• Learning strategies

• Communication strategies

• Cognitive strategies

• Lesson planning

• Exam practice tasks

• What makes children different from

other language learners?

• What classroom activities cater for

that?

• Discuss in pairs, the statements from

YL teachers about the activities they

do in the classroom to adjust to

children´s learning style

• Task:

Match the teachers´ comments with

the strips describing the activities

A strategy involves setting goals,

determining actions to achieve the

goals, and mobilizing resources to

execute the actions.

“specific actions taken by the learner to

make learning easier, faster, more

enjoyable, more self-directed, more

effective, and more transferrable to new

situations"

(R. Oxford, 1990)

Cognitive strategies are one type oflearning strategy that learners use in orderto learn more successfully.

All of these strategies involve deliberatemanipulation of language to improvelearning.

Concept Mapping

Dump and Clump

Visualization

Making Associations

Chunking

Questioning

Scanning

Underlining

Accessing Cues

Using Mnemonics

Sounding out words

Self-checking and Monitoring.

Match the strategy with the

appropriate example

Match the headings provided with the

sample from a TKT YL session

• Bring a material/activity that you find

useful and have used in several

courses.

• Explain the rationale behind its use

(try using what we have discussed so

far to describe this point)