LEARNING STRATEGY TRAINING

In Learning Strategy Training the main concern is to deal with the human beings, not the
language. The students are given training in strategies which make their learning process more
memorable and much better.

The students take the responsibility of their own learning. They evaluate themselves.
They try to find out the way they have learnt. They share their discoveries with their friends.
Since every student has various strategies.

The teacher tries to activate the students’ schemata. Therefore S/He gives importance to
their prior knowledge and tries to remind it to the students.

In metacognitive strategies the students determine how they can learn much better, what
the subjects of the course will be and to what extent they have learnt. Thus metacognitive
strategies are used for planning, monitoring and evaluating a learning task.

In Social/Affective Strategies, the students interact with each other and practice the target
language.

So as we can clearly see in Learning Strategy Training the students learn how to learn
more effectively.

COOPERATIVE LEARNING

In Cooperative Learning, as we can infer from the meaning of ‘cooperative’ which means
doing something with the participation of others, the students are expected to work together.

The students think interdependently rather than individually. They learn how they can
learn from each other by monitoring themselves. They have the opportunity to work with
different people and to discover how to feel like a group member. The students are taught social
skills. They take not only their own responsibility of learning but also the their friends’.
 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

In language training, every student has a different learning style. This stems from that
every student has different strengths. That is, human intelligence has various dimensions and they
work different on every student.

The teacher should should know the multiple intelligences of his/her students and prepare
his/her lesson according to these intelligences to make his/her students more successful and
effective learners. So S/He has to teach the way his/her students learn, not the way S/He likes.

The types of multiple intelligences are

1. Logical/Mathematical

2. Visual/Spatial

3. Body/Kinesthetic

4. Musical/Rhythmic

5. Interpersonal

6. Intrapersonal

7. Verbal/Linguistic

These intelligences are not equal in every student. Yet the teacher should try to get the
students realize their potential on every intelligence.

ACTIVITIES

A1) In language training, the teacher tries to teach linguistic structures such as grammar,
vocabulary, translation, etc.. while in learner training, the main purpose is to teach learner
strategies about how s/he can learn much better.
A2) ‘think us, not me’ is about to work mutually, not individually. That is, a student is not
responsible for merely his/her own learning. S/He also takes the responsibility of his/her friends.
Since this is a group working. So there is no place for ‘me’ in cooperative learning.

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