Second of five TKT YL sessions

1. Session 2
Tutor: Silvia Rovegno

2. • Children as language learners
• Learning strategies
• Communication strategies
• Cognitive strategies
• Lesson planning
• Exam practice tasks

3. • What makes children different from
other language learners?
• What classroom activities cater for
that?
• Discuss in pairs, the statements from
YL teachers about the activities they
do in the classroom to adjust to
children´s learning style

4. • Task:
Match the teachers´ comments with
the strips describing the activities

8. A strategy involves setting goals,
determining actions to achieve the
goals, and mobilizing resources to
execute the actions.

10. “specific actions taken by the learner to
make learning easier, faster, more
enjoyable, more self-directed, more
effective, and more transferrable to new
situations"
(R. Oxford, 1990)

14. Cognitive strategies are one type of
learning strategy that learners use in order
to learn more successfully.
All of these strategies involve deliberate
manipulation of language to improve
learning.

15. Concept Mapping
Dump and Clump
Visualization
Making Associations
Chunking
Questioning
Scanning
Underlining
Accessing Cues
Using Mnemonics
Sounding out words
Self-checking and Monitoring.

16. Match the strategy with the
appropriate example

20. Match the headings provided with the
sample from a TKT YL session

22. • Bring a material/activity that you find
useful and have used in several
courses.
• Explain the rationale behind its use
(try using what we have discussed so
far to describe this point)