Cognitive and Metacognitive strategies

Jean Paul Oviedo

Cognitive Strategies Estrategies to solve problemsThis ones are a sets of steps of thinking oriented to fix a problem

Plan organize

Get your materials for work

Make deductions

and researchs

Be your owm

teacher

Finish your proyect and start a new

one

Cognitive Strategies Strategies such a skills development and

valuesWay to develop skills and at the time develop capabilities, attitudes and values for content (ways of knowing) and methods / procedures (ways of doing)

This ones are oriented to your own thinking, that at know them, you can improve it.

Metacognitive Strategies

Before of beginning a task you have to set goal, plan the task, plan how to complete the task

Metacognitive Strategies Plan / Organize

While working on a task, Check your progress on the task, Check your comprehension as you use the language. Do you understand? If not, what is the problem?

Metacognitive Strategies

Monitoring or Identify your problems

After completing a task, assess how well have you complete a task, assess how well have you used learning strategies and decided how well the strategies were.

Metacognitive StrategiesEvaluate

Determine how your learn best, arrange conditions that help you to learn

Metacognitive estrategiesManage your own learning

Think about and use what you already know to help you do the task

Task based StrategiesBackground Knowledge

Use context and what you know to figure out meaning

Task based strategiesMake inferences

Anticipate information to come, make logical guesses about what will happen in a oral o write text

Task based strategiesMake deductions

Relate new concepts to your own life, to your experiences, knowledge, beliefs and feelings

Task based strategiespersonalize

Apply your linguistic knowledge of other languages (including your native language) to the target language

Task based strategiesUse cognates/ Transfer

Use a synonym or descriptive phrase for unknown words or expression

Task based StrategiesSubstitute/paraphrase

Use or create an actual or mental image to understand and/or represent information

Task based strategies, use your sensesuse images

Say or read aloud a word, sentence, or paragraph to help your understanding

Task based strategiesuse sounds

Act out a role, for example, in Readers’ Theater, or imagine yourself in different roles in the target language

Task Based Strategiesuse your kinesthetic sense