Strategy and Skill in Learning a Foreign Language

Preface
Strategy, process and skill in language learning - What this book is all about
Plan of the book
Preliminary discussions
Some possible implications
User-friendliness of these research methods
Strategies for talking - Learners talking
Early work
Strategy for use in classrooms
Taxonomies of strategies used in talk
Strategic competence and individual characteristics
Compensatory strategies and think-aloud enquiry
Speech acts
Summary
Receiving and understanding language: reading and listening - Introduction
Problems in reading and listening comprehension
Strategies in reading
Strategies in listening
Summary
The writing process - Introduction
Investigations
An example of a think-aloud protocol: talking while writing
Feedback
Summary and implications
Learning to learn and teaching to learn - Introduction
Eight questions about learning strategies
Descriptive studies
Student perceptions of the learning task
Interventionist studies
Summary and conclusions
Skills and strategies in test-taking - Introduction
What test takers do: test taking strategies
Construct validity
Problems with test-taking strategy research
Conclusions
Strategies and skills in the classroom
Introduction
Implications for classroom management and materials design
Implications for syllabus design
Student views of the learning process
Evaluation
Summary and conclusions
References
Index