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Throughout this lesson, you will learn how to recognize and harness your unique learning strengths, align your talents and abilities with your existing skills and prior knowledge. This approach will assist you in structuring and comprehending new information, ultimately enhancing your overall learning experience.
You will be able to identify, analyze and reflect on your learning style. Explore your strengths - ways of thinking, feeling, or acting that can be used effectively - build a picture of your learning process, recognize, compare, and demonstrate ability to discuss about learning styles.
Learning to Learn
1. Developing skills and strategies for learning
2. Taking control of own learning
3. Reflecting on and evaluating own learning
Learners will be able to develop skills to support and take control of their learning and reflect on their progress.
Vantages of using podcasts
Vantages of using podcasts
Listening becomes interesting, natural, automatic and you get more focused, allowing you to practice comprehension skills, mainly when used along with transcripts or texts for reading. You`ll get more engaged with readings, you can listen again the same episode. Podcasts assist you to understand and develop logical and coherent thinking processes, improve writing and speaking and provide insights to assist with text analysis. So, why don't you take your phone and start recording right now?
Listening becomes interesting, natural, automatic and you get more focused, allowing you to practice comprehension skills, mainly when used along with transcripts or texts for reading. You`ll get more engaged with readings, you can listen again the same episode. Podcasts assist you to understand and develop logical and coherent thinking processes, improve writing and speaking and provide insights to assist with text analysis. So, why don't you take your phone and start recording right now?
Good language learners
Good language learners
What would I like to learn?
What would I do to learn?
What would help me in learning?
What is the scope of my learning?
Where am I?
Where I want to get?
How I get there?
When would I get there?
Which degree gives you the best salary after one year in the workforce?
Which degree gives you the best salary after one year in the workforce?
Independent Learners
Independent Learners
Independent learners
Which characteristics describe independent learners?
Check True or False
Being an independent learner:
make choices about what courses to study within a program
set their own short- and long-term learning goals.
leave assignment writing until the last minute.
know who to ask for help in case of difficulty.
know where to find information they need
use the library, online information and other resources effectively.
wait for their tutor to tell them what to read.
identify areas where they are weak and need to do further work.
can conduct an investigation on a particular topic with limited guidance.
accept what they read in textbook and on websites as facts.
What are three characteristics of an independent learner that you think you already have, and three that you need to develop? How might you develop the weaker characteristics?
ACTIVITY
Adopting study strategies
An international student, who will shortly go to university in an English-speaking country, has asked you what study strategies to use in order to achieve academic success.
Pair work
Suggest based on your own experience, at least three pieces of advice.
Group work
Suggest based on your own experience and someone else knowledge, at least three pieces of advice.
Class work
Share ideas with the class.
Learner Strategies
Learner Strategies
LS01 Identifying your strengthsLS02 Analyzing your strengthsLS03 Analyzing yourself as a teacherLS04 Building a picture of your learning processLS05 Recognizing your learning stylePRESENTATION Analyses of the four learning stylesHandout: Analyses of the four learning stylesLS06 Reflecting on your approach to learningLS07 Managing motivationLS08 Creating a learning environmentLS09 Assessing your skillsListening Speaking Reading WritingLS10 Setting goalsLS11 Reviewing your goalsLS12 Planning your study schedule CalendarLS13 Tracking your progress» BONUS Setting Priorities Scheduling Priorities12 Effective Language Learner StrategiesDiscovering Your SkillsHow creative are you?How Do I Learn Best?The VARK Questionnaire Scoring ChartIdentifying Your Skills and InterestsLearning style questionnaireLearning stylesPersonal qualities
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