tailieunhanh - Learner’s strategy and key steps of teaching new strategy of Sara Cotterall and Hayo Reinders to 1st year students of English

This study attempts to present what the author has experienced and applied in teaching new strategies to 1st year students of English at HNUE with an example of application into reading strategies for example reading for main idea according to five key steps by Sara Cotterall and Hayo Reinders (2004). | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE OF HNUE 2011 Vol. 56 N . 1 pp. 138-143 LEARNER S STRATEGY AND KEY STEPS OF TEACHING NEW STRATEGY OF SARA COTTERALL AND HAYO REINDERS TO 1ST YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH Hoang Thi Giang Lam Hanoi National University of Education E-mail gianglam76@ Abstract. This study attempts to present what the author has experienced and applied in teaching new strategies to 1st year students of English at HNUE with an example of application into reading strategies for example reading for main idea according to five key steps by Sara Cotterall and Hayo Reinders 2004 . These briefly introduced key steps are 1 raising learner s awareness of the strategy that is to make them see the importance and the need to study the strategy 2 modelling the strategy the step in which a teacher tries to show how to use the strategy as they read the text for example 3 trying out the strategy at this stage a teacher has to design several activities for students to practice using the new strategy 4 evaluating the strategy to see if the students find the strategy useful or if they have any difficulties in using it to solve all arising problems 5 encouraging transfer of the strategy to new contexts regular practice and revision should be given to make students work independently in any situations they may have in their lifetime learning process. Keywords learner s strategy learning strategy language learning 1. Introduction In the last fifteen years the concepts of teaching strategies for language learn- ing have gained a great deal of interest from many educators and trainers worldwide because of its practicality. By teaching students about strategies teachers are stim- ulating them to share more responsibilities for their learning progress since their learning is actually done by students not teachers. Vietnamese children have been deeply attached to very traditional ways of teaching and learning for 12 primary years at school . the teacher is the person who decides .