Learning Paths
Learning strategies
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Learning strategies, teaching strategies and new curricular demands: a critical view Perspectives, a Journal of TESOL-Italy, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, Fall 2002 New curricular demands, with their emphasis on competence and performance, prompt us to investigate the role that learning strategies can realistically play in the learning/teaching process, both from a cognitive and from an affective-motivational point of view. Learners should not just be "trained" to use strategies - rather, students and teachers should engage in a mutual effort to negetiate their own specific contribution to learning tasks.
Learning strategies: bridging the gap between competence and process A Powerpoint presentation with notes for reflection and discussion Learning strategies have long been recognised as a key tool to empower students and promote learner autonomy. Recent debates on school reform, however, invite us to clarify the place that strategy instruction may have in a new curriculum, with special regard to the concept of “competence” and to the interaction between “process” and “product”. Thus it is important to investigate the role that strategies can play in the learning process, both from a cognitive and from an affective-motivational point of view. Teachers also need to become conversant with the ways and means to implement strategy instruction in the classroom.
The "Sherlock Holmes strategy" A series of activities designed to highlight the use of inferential strategies - for teacher's use, but easily adaptable for students' use. Guess a strange word and think about how you go about it! An Italian version is also available. Guess the missing words or the missing pictures in a comic strip. An Italian version is also available. A mysterious painting gradually unfolds before your eyes ... An Italian version is also available. Read the beginning of a short story ... and make your own predictions as new paragraphs challenge your imagination ... An Italian version is also available.
This activity highlights the use of induction strategies. Help archaeologist Ingana Jeans break a secret code ... and discover how you can make and test your own rules! An Italian version is available.
A new look at grammar rules: read texts, solve problems and discover the rule! (For intermediate students of English): students' materials and keys
These lessons plans focus on improving the use of and reflection on classification strategies.
A lesson plan to investigate students´ beliefs about the process of reading.
A lesson plan to help students assess how and why motivation can change over time and across different tasks.
A lesson plan to make students aware of the local resources available to practise English.
A lesson plan to introduce students to the analysis of errors through a coding system.
Do you really know what strategies your students are using? Why not try out this mini strategy survey? An Italian version is available.
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