| Description |
vi, 151 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Strategy, process and skill in language learning - What this book is all about -- Plan of the book -- Preliminary discussions -- Some possible implications -- User-friendliness of these research methods -- Strategies for talking - Learners talking -- Early work -- Strategy for use in classrooms -- Taxonomies of strategies used in talk -- Strategic competence and individual characteristics -- Compensatory strategies and think-aloud enquiry -- Speech acts -- Summary -- Receiving and understanding language: reading and listening - Introduction -- Problems in reading and listening comprehension -- Strategies in reading -- Strategies in listening -- Summary -- The writing process - Introduction -- Investigations -- An example of a think-aloud protocol: talking while writing -- Feedback -- Summary and implications -- Learning to learn and teaching to learn - Introduction -- Eight questions about learning strategies -- Descriptive studies -- Student perceptions of the learning task -- Interventionist studies -- Summary and conclusions -- Skills and strategies in test-taking - Introduction -- What test takers do: test taking strategies -- Construct validity -- Problems with test-taking strategy research -- Conclusions/ Strategies and skills in the classroom -- Introduction -- Implications for classroom management and materials design -- Implications for syllabus design -- Student views of the learning process -- Evaluation -- Summary and conclusions -- References -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [140]-149) and index |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Ability testing.
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
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| LC no. |
95005125 |
| ISBN |
0340591099 (paperback) |
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0340625325 |
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