The document discusses learning strategies for developing second language ability. It defines cognitive strategies as processes and behaviors students use to improve learning and memorization when carrying out activities. Some examples of cognitive strategies provided are repetition to identify and memorize, regrouping elements according to semantic or syntactic approaches, making inferences using elements from texts or situations, internal synthesis to facilitate memorization, deduction by applying known rules, induction to form general rules from observations, creating mental images to structure and retain information, and transfer by applying memorized rules to new situations.

1. STUDENT´S NAME: LIC. LUPE RIVERA GONZALES
LEARNING STRATEGIES
ASSIGMENT: DRAFT ESSAY # 2
DATE: JANUARY,18
Essay N º 2
Learning Strategies
Strategies are the tools for active, self-directed involvement needed for
developing L2 communicative ability (O’Malley & Chamot, 1990). Research has
repeatedly shown that the conscious use of such strategies is related to
language achievement and proficiency.
STRATEGIES COGNITIVES
The strategies cognitive refer to processes and behaviours that the students
use to improve their learning capacity and memorization, particularly those that
put at stake when carrying out certain activities.
They can consist in:
The repetition, strategy that is good to identify and to memorize
The regrouping of elements according to diverse approaches. In the case
of those languages: semantic, syntactic, etc.
The inference consists on using elements of the text - oral or written -, or
of the situation, to elaborate hypothesis or to give him sense although
this it has not been manifested in an explicit way.
The internal synthesis is a periodic activity of interior reformulation whose
purpose is to facilitate the memorization.
The deduction consists on applying well-known rules to solve problems
It’s of the general thing to the particular thing.
The induction or generalization consists on the formulation of general
rules starting from the observation of a number of cases among those
that certain regularities are perceived. It’s of the peculiar to the general
thing.
The creation of images mental help to structure and to retain one
situation or an element.
The transfer consists on using rules that they have memorized in
situations previous to carry out new applications in new situations.
The elaboration consists on already uniting the new data to the
information’s well-known, to elaborate a more appropriate representation
to the new linguistic experience.
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