Laura LochoreWestOne Services

Language learning strategies

in multimedia learning

WestOne Services

Develop curriculum resources for:

• K-12• VET • Careers

in CD-ROM, print and DVD formats.

K-12 Languages products

Languages products:IndonesianItalian

Language learning and communication strategies

Collaborative learning strategies Literacy strategies Thinking skills Strategies for engaging learners Strategies for using digital resources.

Strategies? Do I do strategies?

Strategies: Why?

•Strategies facilitate learning•Challenges to learning area

“Languages are all very well, but we have to focus on literacy”.

Literacy

Functional literacyCritical literacy

– Intercultural understanding– http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/English/critlit.htm

Task design–Literacy strategies –Thinking skills–Collaborative learning

strategies

Who are our learners and how do they learn?

Read the instructionsDiscovery learningSocial learningViewing

Metacognition: Know how you learnt something so you can do it again.

Strategies to engage learners

Boys “rejected and resisted almost all school literacy practices … but were eager to embrace highly sophisticated literate practices outside school…”

They rejected homework as “boring, stupid, way to easy”.

They wanted to “use what they learn”.

Online gaming or language teaching strategies?

Challenge (supported) and purpose Get straight in (learn by doing) Risk-taking and reward Interact, communicate Learn from peers & see others

learning Awareness of progress Develop identity

– “I’m an Indonesian speaker”

Incorporating strategies into tasks

Task: create a video-clip (real/animated) in the TL demonstrating the use of strategies.

Strategies for using digital technologies

Beware IT fatigue Vary delivery/mode/media

– individual, small group, whole group– screen, discussion, paper

Teach IT strategies – Web-searching in TL, advanced

searching, evaluating validity of sites.

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