The Teaching and Learning Environment Prepared by: Yaseen Taha PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com • Learner Autonomy • Learner strategies • Learning styles PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. (Galileo Galilei) Autonomous Learner The autonomous person as “the one who chooses for himself what to think and what to do”. PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com Application of learner autonomy in language teaching • Needs analysis: after consultation and assessment, the teacher may help the learner develop a profile of his/her strengths and weaknesses and suggest independent learning approach • learner training: short courses or training activities that seek to introduce strategies for independent learning. PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com • self-monitoring: developing skills needed to monitor their own learning. for example, video record oneself to perform different tasks and compare their performance on the same tasks over time. • learning counseling: regular meetings between teachers and learners to help learners plan for their own learning. PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com • learning resources: the institution may provide links to online or print resources to foster autonomous learning. • follow-up and support. What is Strategy? PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com Learner strategies Definition of Strategy: • Thoughts and actions, consciously selected by learners, to assist them in learning and using language in general, and in the completion of specific language tasks. • A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com Cognitive strategies • repetition, organising new language, summarising meaning, guessing meaning from context, using imagery for memorisation. • Metacognitive strategies • cognition about cognition, or more informally, thinking about thinking, controlling language learning by planning what to do, checking on progress, and then evaluating performance on a given task PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com • How should I approach this listening text? (planning) • What parts of the text should I pay more attention to? (planning) • Am I focusing on the appropriate parts of the text? (monitoring? • Did I understand correctly the words the writer used?(monitoring? • Did I perform the task well? (evaluating) • What caused me to misunderstand part of the text? (evaluating) PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com Social Strategy • means employed by learners for interacting with other learners and native speakers. Social strategies in foreign lang