Case study. Reflect on your general learning ability and your language learning aims to answer the following questions

CARD 1.

1. 
   How are the following three concepts essential for improving memory? ( physical exercise, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle)
   
2. 
   Do you know people who gave up learning foreign language? What were the reasons? What challenges did they face?
   
3. 
   Case study. Reflect on your general learning ability and your language learning aims to answer the following questions.
   

1. 
   What do you think are your strength/weaknesses as a language learner?
   
2. 
   How do you see yourself as a language learner?
   
3. 
   What expectations do you have of language teachers at your education establishment?
   
4. 
   What do you find easy/difficult about learning language?
   
5. 
   How can you improve you study habits working individually or in group?
   

Key words: learner, target language, native language, strategy, competence, communication strategy.

CARD 2

1. 
   How do you compensate for inevitable differences between your learning style and the lecturer’s teaching style?
   
2. 
   Becoming more reflective. Illustrate how the ISS course helped you
   

3. 
   Case study
   

You and your friend have been spending your days studying for your Introduction to literature test. You think you know the material it is enough to study. But your friend suggests to you to study again the next morning 1 or 2 hours prior to the test.
Explain which is the good idea? How do you tell her?
Key words: Sort term memory, long term memory, mnemonics, memory strategy, Loci method, Chunking, Retrieval


CARD 3
1. How the ISS course helped you?
2. What skills that you have learnt will be useful in your study and your future profession?
3. What other autonomous learning skills you think you need to develop and how you can do it?

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