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Title: Styles- and Strategies-Based Language Instruction


1
Styles- and Strategies-Based Language Instruction
  • Andrew D. Cohen
  • University of Minnesota
  • Martha Nyikos
  • Indiana University

2
What is Styles- and Strategies-Based Language
Instruction?
  • Learner-focused.
  • Explicit highlighting learners styles and
    strategies in performing instructional
    activities.
  • Learners understand both what to learn and how to
    learn it.
  • Making sure learners are true partners with their
    teachers in the instructional effort.

3
Evolution of Styles- and Strategies-Based
Instruction
  • 1960's Psychology of Learning
  • Learning to learn,
  • Cognitive theory based on the information
    processing model (declarative knowledge facts
    procedural knowledge procedures for using
    declarative knowledge),
  • Away from behaviorist (stimulus-response),
  • Towards a more reasoned learning of rules
    automatic rule learning/acquisition.

4
1970's - Good Language Learner Prescriptive
approach to language learner strategies (Rubins
Good Language Learner, 1975).E.g. Good
Guesser
5
1980s
  • Classifications of Strategies, Descriptions of
    Learners (by OMalley Chamot, Oxford, and
    others).

6
1990's Strategies-Based Instruction (SBI)
Experimenting with different kinds of
interventions. University of Minnesota
experiment with intermediate learners of French
and Norwegian. Initiation of SBI summer
institutes.
7
2000's SSBI Sorting out the
strategy classification systems, The
intersection of styles, strategies, and
motivation on the accomplishment of language
learning and language use tasks.
8
Self-Directed Learning
  • Components of SSBI
  • Strategy Preparation
  • Strategy Awareness-Raising
  • Strategy Instruction
  • Strategy Practice
  • Personalization of Strategies
  • Options for Teachers
  • Insert strategies in established materials.
  • Start with strategies and design materials.
  • Insert strategies spontaneously when appropriate.
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