Sapphire talks about strategies. They come from Kojima et al. (2010).
Characteristics of learning strategies:
- Learners can use multiple strategies
- Learners can learn new strategies from the teacher
- Learners can use a new strategy in a subsequent task that is similar to the previous one.
- Learning strategies can change depending on the learning environment.
- When we use learning strategies, we use them to accomplish an objective.
- There are no good strategies of bad strategies.
Sapphire is particularly interested in metacognitive strategies.
- These are the strategies that learners use to manage their learning. Such strategies are planning, self-monitoring, self-evaluation, and problem identification.
Social strategies
- Strategies that learners use to communicate with others in order to accomplish an activity.
Crazy Chicken
Question: How do the teachers use focus on form in the class?
- Analysis: Analyze teacher talk and instruction for various focus on form techniques:
- Implicit attention directing techniques: Input flood, input enhancement, recast, output enhancement, interaction enhancement,
- Explicit attention directing techniques: Dictogloss, processing instruction,
Nobita
He has a list of skills and CEFR/ CEFR-J can do lists. He needs to see how he can apply them to the tests.
Questions:
- What kind of receptive and productive language skills are targeted in the TOEIC and Iwate Teacher’s test?
- What kind of “can do”s does each test target?
- What level of can do does each test target?
By 12/2, give Rocky and James tentative answers to these questions.
References
Last name, first initial. (Year.) Title. Place published: Publisher.
Kojima, H., Ozeki, N., Hiromori, Y. (2010). Seichou suru eigo gakushuusha. (Learner Development in English Education) Tokyo: Taishuukan Shoten.