Learning Strategy Instruction in the Language Classroom: Issues and Implementation

✍ Scribed by Anna Uhl Chamot (editor); Vee Harris (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Comprehensive collection bringing together the very latest work in the field of language learning strategy instruction

This book is unique in its focus on language learning strategy instruction. The chapters, written by leading experts, embrace both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives and link theory and practice by giving examples of teaching activities, as well as in-depth discussions of the theoretical issues raised.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Dedication to Anna Uhl Chamot
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1. Issues: Models and Contexts
Introduction to Part 1
1. Language Learning Strategy Instruction: Recent Research and Future Directions
2. Approaches to Learning Strategy Instruction
3. Diversity and Integration in Language Learning Strategy Instruction
4. Designing Strategic Classrooms: Self-assessment in Enabling Self-regulated Learning
5. Language Learner Strategies and Individual Differences
6. Learning Strategy Instruction in Content and Language Integrated Learning Programs
Part 2. Issues: Less Studied and Less Taught Groups of Strategies
Introduction to Part 2
7. Grammar Learning Strategies Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom: The Case of Students in Degree Programs in English
8. Language Learning Strategy Instruction for Critical Cultural Awareness
9. Strategy Instruction for Learning and Performing Target Language Pragmatics
Part 3. Implementation: The Learners
Introduction to Part 3
10. Designing Effective Strategy Instruction: Approaches and Materials for Young Language Learners
11. Guidelines and Materials for Integrating Language Learning Strategy Instruction into the Language Lesson
12. Differentiation in Language Learning Strategy Instruction
13. Teaching Language Learning Strategies Using Technology
Part 4. Implementation: The Teachers
Introduction to Part 4
14. Teacher Education: Formative Assessment, Reflection and Affective Strategy Instruction
15. Empowering Teachers to Promote Learner Self-management
16. Teacher Education for Language Learning Strategy Instruction: Approaches and Activities
17. What We Still Need to Learn about Language Learning Strategies Instruction: Research Directions and Designs
Afterword
Index