Language Learning Strategies (lls)

Language Learning Strategies (LLS)

• Why teach them?

• LLS instruction focuses on making the students more active learners by teaching them how to learn and how to use what they have learned, and be more successful second language learners.

Objectives:

• Gain some knowledge of Language Learning Strategies (LLS)
• Re-Activate knowledge of Learning Styles
• Learn 20 LL Strategies
• Link LLS to Instruction
• Apply LLS in developing lessons
• Resource:
• Sailing the 5 Cs with Learning Strategies

• Diversity
• Differentiated Instruction

• Cooperative Learning

• TPR TPRS

• Learning Styles

• Proficiency
• 3 Modes of Communication
• Standards
• Multiple Intelligences

• Graduation Requirements

• Assessment

• Technology

• Block Schedules

• Parents

• Contextualized Instruction

• Higher order thinking

• Blooms Taxonomies

• Backward Design

• Evidence of Learning

• SLA

• Vocabulary

• Functions

What are learner strategies for?

• for enhancing learning.
• for performing specified tasks.
• for solving specific problems.
• for compensating for a deficit in learning.
• for making learning easier, faster, more enjoyable.

Distinct from Learning Styles

• learner's "natural, habitual, and preferred way(s) of absorbing, processing, and retaining new information and skills" (Reid, 1995, p. viii)