LEARNER STRATEGIES

Research Proposal: Learner Strategies

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Research Project1

Literature Review1

Background to the Project1

Learner strategies Defined2

Why focus on learning strategies?2

Types of Learner Strategies3

Acquisition of Literacy5

Situations of reading and listening5

Relevance of Learner Strategies in the areas of Second Language Learning7

Research Questions8

Methodology and Method (for data collection and analysis)8

Ethical Issues9

Significance of the Project10

Dissemination Strategies11

Conclusion12

References13

Research Proposal: Learner Strategies

Introduction to the Research Project

This research proposal aims to highlight certain pedagogical strategies that can assist teachers in developing autonomous learners within the classroom settings. It needs to encourage teachers to identify and develop their students' capacity for becoming autonomous learners in their own capacity. The proposal will outline procedures for detecting language learners' ability as self-sufficient learners and recommendations for using classroom contexts to promote such a learning environment. A reference for classroom teachers and curriculum developers, its applications should have relevance in the areas of second language learning and EFL.

Literature Review

Background to the Project

Language learning has undergone a paradigm shift in recent years. Until recently, the instructor was considered the holder who was a mission to educate people not holding the knowledge. Any attention is now on the learner who has become responsible for their learning and who should benefit every opportunity to practice and improve their skills in the target language. The acquisition of learning strategies is the key to a high operating the learner. Although these strategies are to be used by individual learners, the trainers play a pivotal role in raising awareness of learning strategies and an efficient implementation of these strategies. The use of learning strategies by the learners and the teachers, results in increased self-confidence. Learning strategies are actions taken to help acquire, store, retrieve and use information. The use of strategies learning will enable learners to make their learning more effective, pleasant, more autonomous and transferable to new situations.

The development of techniques and strategies for learning and communication refers to the possibilities that each student has to develop mechanisms of learning a second language to experience the world, so that the teacher required to know such strategies that facilitate student learning. In this area, teachers can perform a variety of activities, including tasks beyond the classroom, with goals not only focused on knowledge and use of the modern language, but on improving and enhancing the art and the means by which we learn (Reinders, Lazaro, 2011, p. 100).

Learner strategies Defined

The term "strategy" can be applied to linguistic behaviour that directly affects the teaching that the student is doing to control or transform the information received (contextual guess) and adjust the training (paying attention to what you understand whether a partner) (Reinders, Lazaro, 2011, p. 100-210). Linguistic behaviour and may indirectly influence the learning process: in a situation where students use a limited vocabulary to communicate (the description of something when you do not know the specific words, use of gestures), or in a situation they created to study the language (watching movies in foreign languages, communication).

Why focus on learning strategies?

Three main reasons justify the importance ...