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Summaries Chapter Six |
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6.1
Communication strategies
and language teaching ●
Communication strategies are a natural part of conversational
interaction that people fall back on when they have difficulty in
getting things across. ●
Students mostly fall back on the first language strategies and so
teaching can heighten students awareness of which of their natural
strategies are useful in a second language.
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6.2 Learning Strategies and language teaching •
Exploit the GLL
strategies that are useful to the students. •
Develop the student’s
independence from the teacher with ‘learner training’ or directed
learning. •
Make students aware of
the range of strategies they can adopt. •
Provide specific training
in particular strategies. • Remember the similarities and differences between learning a second language and learning other school subjects. |