Oxford's Direct Language Learning Strategies

DIRECT STRATEGIES Language learning strategies that directly involve the target language are called direct strategies. All direct strategies require mental processing of the language, but the three groups of direct strategies (memory, cognitive, &... More

DIRECT STRATEGIES Language learning strategies that directly involve the target language are called direct strategies. All direct strategies require mental processing of the language, but the three groups of direct strategies (memory, cognitive, & compensation) do this processing differently and for different purposes. I. Memory Strategies help students store and retrieve new information. A. Creating Mental Linkages 1. Grouping involves classifying or reclassifying what is heard or read into meaningful group, thus reducing the number of unrelated elements. e. g Ahmad who is learning English, writes down in his notebook new words when he hears them, and he categorizes them grammatically – you, he, she; hard, easy, soft; quickly, completely. 2. Associating/Elaborating involves associating new language information with familiar concepts already in memory. 3. Placing New Words into a Context involves placing new words or expressions that have been heard or read into a meaningful Less