Category:Learning Strategies

Learning Strategies are the strategies used by langauge learners to help them learn their target language.

Metacognitive Strategies

 * Directed attention is a technique of focusing on a particular aspect of their language use, and ignoring everything else, to achieve a specific targetted objective.
 * Self-management refers to the students ability to manage their own learning discipline and knowing which environmental factors are most conductive to language learning.

Cognitive strategies

 * Grouping is a technique in which the learner categorises aspects of the target language according to common features.
 * Repetition is a technique in which the learner uses repetition to achieve the objective of memorising new words or internalizing a particular grammar point.
 * Deduction is a technique of applying the rules of a language, for example, using writing drills to produce valid language output.
 * Inference is a technique in which language clues are analysed and the learner tries to infer the underlying rules of the language.

Socio-affective Strategies

 * Request Clarification is a technique where the learners approaches external agents to answers specific questions from the target language.
 * Creating Practice Opportunities is a technique where learners actively seeking out opportunities to use the target language.
 * Approximation is a technique where the learners consciously uses an incorrect word because it conveys the closest meaning to what they intended.