English Teaching Practicum Activity 2.1

1. Styles and strategies
English Teaching Practicum
Learning Activity 2.1
Pamela Bermeo

2. Process
•Human
Being
abilities in
the seven
intelligences
Style
•Preference
within an
individual
•Intellectual
functioning
Strategy
•Method of
approaching
a problem or
task

3. Learning styles
Way people internalize their environment between
emotion and cognition
Cognitive style
Way people
learn and the
way they attack
a problem based
on personality
and cognition
When cognitive
styles are related
to education, it is
referred to as
learning styles
Learning a
second language
involves
affective factors,
and learning
styles

4. L e a r n i n g s t y l e s i n S e c o n d L a n g u a g e A c q u i s i t i o n
Field
independence
style
Ability to perceive a relevant item of distracting
Distinguish parts from a whole, to concentrate on
something
Field dependence: perceives the whole picture or the
general configuration of a problem
FI is related to classroom learning that involves
analysis, attention to details, and focused activities
FI performed better in deductive lessons, and FD is
more successful with inductive lessons
Student has his own appropriate style depending on
the context

5. Left hemisphere Right hemisphere
Associated with logical, analytical
thought with mathematical and linear
processing of information
Perceives and remembers holistic,
integrative, and emotional
information
Dominates the learning by a
deductive style of teaching
Dominates learners appeared to be
successful in inductive classroom
environments
Learners are better producing
separate words, gathering the specific
of language, abstraction,
classification, labelling, and
reorganization
Learners deal better with whole
images, generalizations, metaphors,
emotional reactions and artistic
expression
Intellectual Intuitive
Planned and structure Fluid and spontaneous

6. Ambiguity
Tolerance
Tolerate ideas that
run counter your
believe system
Tolerant people
believe in
ambiguity and
uncertainty
Language learners
are ambiguous with
different cultural
systems, learning
from both
Too much tolerance
influences negatively
the assumptions of
rules

7. • Systematic and intuitive style
• Intuitive style: people consider several
gambles before a solution
• Systematic style: weight all
considerations in a problem, venturing
a solution
• Reflective students tend to make fewer
errors in reading
• Impulsive students are usually faster
readers
• Visual learners tend to prefer reading
and studying charts, drawings, and
graphical information
• Auditory learners prefer listening to
lectures and audiotapes

8. Specific actions that we
make on a given problem
Moments to solve problems
posed by second language
input and output
Learning strategy and
communication strategy

9. tools and techniques that learners develop as they learn. Learning
strategies are an important part of developing autonomy
Cognitive strategy
types of learning strategy that
learners use in order to learn
more successfully.
Socioaffective strategy
learning strategies concerned
with managing emotions, both
negative and positive.

10. Cognitive
strategies
Deduction: apply rules to produce second language
Recombination: construct sentences by combining know elements
Imagery: new information and visual concept
Auditory representation: sound words
Keyword: familiar words between first and second language
Contextualization: meaningful language sequence
Elaboration: relate concepts
Transfer: use previous and new linguistic knowledge
Inferencing: guess meaning

11. Socio
Affective
Strategies
Cooperation: work with pairs obtaining
feedback
Questions for clarification: ask teachers for
repetitions or explanations

12. Employment of verbal and nonverbal mechanisms for the
productive communication of information
Avoidance strategies
Put off conflict indefinitely, by
delaying or ignoring the conflict
Compensatory strategies
communication strategies used
by learners to compensate for
limitations in their language

13. Avoidance
strategies
Message abandonment: leaving message
because of language difficulties
Topic avoidance: avoiding topic areas
because of language difficulties

14. Compensatory
strategies
Circumlocution: describe the target object of action
Approximation: alternative term to express meaning
Use of all-purpose words: general lexical item to contexts
Word coinage: create a nonexistent L2 words
Nonlinguistic signals
Literal translation
Foreignizing
Code-switching
Appeal for help