Chapter 5

Presenters:LINA HOMEADRIANA GERENA RIVAS

PROCESS

Specific methods or techniques for approaching a problem or task.

STYLE

STRATEGY

Tendencies or preferences within an individual

Are universal characteristics of all human beigns

Do you know what a Learning Style is?

Can you find him in the following picture?

Where is Waldo now?

Can you find him?

• What are the characteristics of a FI and FD person?

• How does it all relate to second language Learning?

•what are the disadvantages of these Styles?

Left – RightBrain

Dominance

Look at the list of differences between right-left brain processing.

Circle or check the side that corresponce to your own preferences.

Are you left or right brain dominant?

REFLECTIVE IMPULSIVITY

Take a long time to make a decision

Make quick decisions in answer to problems

(risk-taking/ guessing)

1) ARE YOUR STUDENTS FAST AND ACCURATE AS WELL?

2) HOW MIGHT YOU DEVELOP BOTH SPEED AND ACCURACY?

STYLES

Learning Strategies

Communicative Strategies

Categories Categories

Metacognitive

Cognitive

Socioaffective Avoidance Strategies

Compensatory

Sintactic

Phonological

Topic

Prefabricated

Code

Appeal

LEARNING STRATEGIES

METACOGNITIVE COGNITIVE SOCIO-AFFECTIVE

Communicative Strategies

Categories

Avoidance Strategies

Compensatory Strategies

Sintactic

Phonological

Topic

Prefabricated Patterns

Code switching

Appeal to authority

Discuss any instances in which you have used any of the 13 communication strategies.

Are there some other strategies you could add?

How I learned… when I was in your

shoes.

(STRATEGIES- BASED INSTRUCTION)

WHICH OF THE PEDAGOGICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR SBI APPEAL TO YOU ON PAGE 146, AND WHY?

1. (G) What is your more dominant Cognitive Style? Give examples of how you manifest those styles both in your approach to problems and in your approach to SLA.

2. List the types of activities or techniques that illustrate

that given style then decide which list of activities is better for what kind of purposes.

3. When you were learning a foreing language , what strategically-based advice would you like to have had?

4. What was the purpose of this chapter?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, H. Douglas. 1941. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. Chapter 5. 118 – 149.