This document discusses language learning strategies and teaching strategies. It defines learning strategies as operations used by learners to aid acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information. Teaching strategies refer to methods used to help students learn content and develop goals. The document outlines different direct strategies like mnemonic and compensation strategies. It also discusses indirect strategies including metacognitive, affective and social strategies. It lists characteristics of good language learners and provides questions to ask students to find out their language learning strategies.

1. Topic : The Nature of Language Teaching
chapter: 24.
Name : Solanki Binita M.
Subject : English Language Teaching.
Paper : 12
Semester : 3, M.A.
Year : 2013-2015
Submitted to: Department of English,
Krishnakumarsinhji , Bhavnagar , University.
Date: 04/10/2014

2. Introduction:
‘Learning strategies are ‘operation employed
by the learner to aid the acquisition, storage
Retrieval and use of information, specific action
taken by the learner to make learning easier,
faster, more enjoyable, more self-directed, more
Effective and more transferable to new situation.
Teaching strategies refer to methods used to help
students learn the desired course contents and be
able to develop achievable goals in the future.
Teaching strategies identify the different available
learning methods to enable them to develop the
right strategy to deal with the target group
identified. Assessment of the learning capabilities
of students provides a key pillar in development of a
successful teaching strategy.

5. Direct strategies
Mnemonic strategies
 Creating mental linkages
 Applying images and
sound
 Reviewing well
 Employing action.
Compensation Strategies
Guessing intelligently
Overcoming
limitation in speaking
and writing
Cognitive Strategies
Practicing
Receiving and sending messages
Analyzing and reasoning
Creating structure for
Input and output

6. Indirect strategies
Metacognitive Strategies
Centering your learning
Arranging and planning
your learning
Evaluating your learning
Affective Strategies
Lowering your anxiety
Encouraging yourself
Taking your emotional
temperature
Social Strategies
Asking question
Cooperating with others
Empathizing with others

7. The good language learner:
Is a willing and accurate guesser;
Has a strong drive to communicate;
Is not often inhibited;
Focuses on communication, but also attends
to form;
Practices and creates opportunities to do so
Knows what s appropriate;
Attends to meaning;
Actively participates.

8. How to find out your students’
language learning strategies
Ask students to write a short essay or simply
ask:
How do you study vocabulary?
grammar?
What do you do when you need to talk to
a partner in class?
How often read? What enjoy reading?