LEARNING STRATEGIES_ METACOGNITION AND COGNITION
1st SLIDE
Title: Learning strategies: cognition and metacognition.
Pablo Gomez and Alberto Leal
2nd SLIDE
PABLO: Ey Alberto, what happens?
ALBERTO: I’m sad because I try and try, but I fail to understand what learning strategies are.
PABLO: Never mind, if you want, we can learn it together.
Basically, learning strategies are efforts made by learners to enhance or assist their language learning experience. Do you know what elements are attributed to these strategies or efforts?
ALBERTO: absolutely, there are the following:
a. They involve choice on the part of the learner;
b. Besides, they involve conscious selection; that is, the learner is aware of deciding to use a strategy;
c. Moreover, They are goal directed (for instance, they are purposeful in nature and geared toward task completion)
d. Finally, They are effortful.
And as you know, there are five types of learning strategies, which are metacognitive, affective, social, cognitive and memory strategies; but we are going to focus on metacognitive and cognitive strategies.
3rd SLIDE
PABLO: ok let me check it on my computer. Right, here it is the information about metacognitive strategies:
Learners use this resource in order to plan, control and assess their own development. Besides, it means an especial type of knowledge, a triple knowledge: to know what learning is, to know how learning better and to know yourself, your feelings, your emotions, your attitudes and your aptitudes.
So, there are many examples:
a. Thinking about the aims of an exercise or a task.
b. Self-assessment.
c. And trying to put in practise what they have learned to gain knowledge.
I don’t understand what exactly cognitive strategies are… Alberto, could you help me please?
4th SLIDE
ALBERTO:
Of course, listen to me and note down:
These are mental processes, conscious or unconscious, with which the understanding of language, its assimilation, its storage in memory, its recovery and its later use are improved.
Learning a new language means, on the one hand, to understand the content of the messages and texts they read. And, on the other hand, to understand new rules and new linguistic patterns.
Some examples of cognitive strategies could be:
a. Comparison between a structure of the new language and the equivalent in the native language.
b. Elaborating an outline of what has been learned.
c. Underlining the main passages of a text.
5th SLIDE
ALBERTO: At least!! We have learned all about this topic.
PABLO: And you? Have you learned with us? We expect it.
BOTH: Byeeeeeeee.
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