Doing it for themselves (CPF4)
Focus on learning strategies and vocabulary building

Vee Harris & David Snow

Doing it for themselves focuses on enabling pupils to become more effective and independent learners, so that the responsibility for their progress is shared between teacher and pupils. It first explores ways of teaching pupils how to learn more effectively and then focuses on the particular area of vocabulary building. It encourages pupils to explore their own learning styles, enabling them to exploit fully the learning opportunities available both within and outside the classroom.

Part 1: Teaching learners how to learn presents pupil-friendly strategy checklists across all the skill areas, along with guidance on how and when to introduce them. Current developments in learning strategies research are related to recent Government initiatives to show the links to the KS3 Framework and the ‘thinking skills’ advocated. Part 2: Words presents the most successful techniques for acquiring new vocabulary and shows how teachers can facilitate one of the basic skills needed by all language learners. It takes into account the recommendations contained in the KS3 MFL Framework.

Contents

Part 1: Teaching learners how to learn-Strategy training in the MFL classroom
What are learning strategies and how can they help us? | Principles of strategy instruction: Memorisation and collaborative strategies | The strategy instruction cycle in action: Reading and writing strategies | Issues in strategy instruction | Strategy instruction in each school context

Part 2: Words-Teaching and learning vocabulary
The teacher’s viewpoint | The pupil’s viewpoint | The vocabulary notebook | Playing games: A waste of time? | The old skills revisited | Verbs are words, too | Techniques worth exploring | Words and ICT | Language and cultural awareness | Helping pupils to help themselves | Appendix A: Groupwork and pairwork | Appendix B: Creating your own listening materials

2004 | 128pp | ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-32-8 | ISBN-10:1 904243 32 0 | £12 | Order this title online

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See also:
Developing learning strategies (APF2)
It makes you think! (NPF4)

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