Strategy and Skill in Learning a Foreign Language
Published on 17. April 1995
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-340-62532-3 (ISBN)
Description
This text examines the processes involved in acquiring language skills, both mental and social, and the notion of what makes a skilled language learner. This book also discusses what is known about teaching procedures and how they are used by the learner; how tasks are set up, how tasks determine the student's approach, how teachers' feedback is formulated and how students use the feedback and incorporate it in the development of their skills in the language. Throughout the discussion the author presents the growing body of knowledge from qualitative and descriptive research on second language development and draws implications for the development of teaching and learning strategies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-62532-3 (9780340625323)
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Steven McDonough
Strategy and Skill in Learning a Foreign Language
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04/1995
Hodder Arnold
€43.55
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Content
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 characteristics; compensatory strategies and think-aloud enquiry; speech acts; receiving and understanding language - reading and listening; problems in reading and listening comprehension; strategies in reading; strategies in listening; the writing process; investigations; an example of a think-aloud protocol - talking while writing; feedback; summary and implications; learning to learn and teaching to learn; eight questions about learning strategies; descriptive studies; student perceptions of the learning task; interventionist studies; skills and strategies in test-taking; what test takers do - test taking strategies; construct validity; problems with test-taking strategy research; strategies and skills in the classroom; implications for classroom management and materials design; implications for syllabus design; student views of hte learning process; evaluation.