Facultat dEducaci

PG in English as an L3

The Strategy Factor in Language Learning

Case studies

Nr
.
1

Video
Kindergarten ESL
lesson:
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?
v=q2tGtw1_W_E

Learning new
words:
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?
v=0fUlS_aGQ1I

Context
PRIMARY
( First Cycle)

PRE-PRIMARY

Strategies identified
MEMORY STRATEGIES
Repetition
Imitation
Memorization

MEMORY STRATEGIES
Repetition
Memorization

Teaching approach and comments

ADUIO-LINGUAL APPROACH
No grammar rules, only vocabulary lists and
minimizes the importance of the learning
strategies in Language Learning process.
NOTES/ACTVITIES:
- Sing a song with gestures with some
parts of body and actions that they do
in a class
- Songs about different countries and
jobs
- Ask questions about a picture and
gesture the answers
ADUIO-LINGUAL APPROACH
No grammar rules, only vocabulary lists and
minimizes the importance of the learning
strategies in Language Learning process.

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PG in English as an L3

NOTES/ACTIVITIES:
- Visual supports and repeat
- Game WHATS MISSING?
- Game WHICH ONE IS IT?
- Game FEELING AND GUESSING
3

Angls Escola
Joviat:
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?
v=hlh-zjSPNVk

PRE-PRIMARY
PRIMARY
HIGH SCHOOL

PRE-PRIMARY and
PRIMARY
MEMORY STRATEGIES
- Imitation
- Repetition
- Memorization
HIGH SCHOOL
- Exercising (practice
with rules)

ADUIO-LINGUAL APPROACH (PREPRIMARY and PRIMARY)

No grammar rules, only vocabulary lists and
minimizes the importance of the learning
strategies in Language Learning process
GRAMMAR-TRANSALATION APPROACH
( HIHG SCHOOL)
Priority the ability to construct correct
theory and use the cognitive strategies.
NOTES/ACTIVITIES:
PRE-PRIMARY
- Songs with gestures
- Flash cards with vocabulary and
repeat
PRIMARY
- Ask with a puppet
- Flash cards with vocabulary and
repeat
HIGH SCHOOL

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Learning
Strategies:
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?
v=sEx8_Z_a0Cg

HIGH SCHOOL

COGNITIVE STRATEGIES
- Analyze
- Summarizing
- Repeating
SOCIAL STRATEGIES
- Cooperative with
others
- Emphasizing with
others
- Asking questions
METACOGNITIVE
STRATEGIES
- Centering your
learning
- Evaluating your
learning
Arranging and
planning your
learning

Teacher explain a rule and student

create an examples

GRAMMAR-TRANSALATION APPROACH
Priority the accuracy and the ability to
construct correct theory and use the
cognitive strategies.
Focus on reading and writing.
COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
Students work in groups and teacher put
the focus in the process.
The teacher work with their context and
with real situations.
HOLISTIC APPROACH
The teacher connects similitudes between
different languages and between different
cultures.
Teacher presents the contents of the
language connecting with their knowledge.
NOTES/ACTIVITIES:
- Oral reading
- Translate words in different languages
depending of their mother language.

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PG in English as an L3

Work the pronunciation

Work the vocabulary and then
produce a sentence with these words.
- Correct the errors in group.
- There is a final product
AUDIO-LINGUAL APPROACH
No grammar rules, only vocabulary lists and
minimizes the importance of the learning
strategies in Language Learning process.
-

Building
community in a
multi-language
classroom:
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?
v=KduFyBohX4g

3rd Grade of
PRIMARY

MEMORY STRATEGIES
- Repetition
SOCIAL STRATEGIES
- Cooperative with
others
METACOGNITIVE
STRATEGIES
- Centering your
learning
- Arranging and
planning your
learning

COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
Students work in groups and teacher put
the focus in the process.
The teacher work with their context and
with real situations.
HOLISTIC APPROACH
The teacher connects similitudes between
different languages and between different
cultures.
Teacher presents the contents of the
language connecting with their knowledge.
ACTIVITIES
- Work in groups
- The students are the focus
- Relating an answer the teacher

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PG in English as an L3

Model for
teaching ESL
learners:
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?
v=lVGbz4EqyGs

3rd Grade of
Primary

COGNITIVE STRATEGIES
- Discuss
SOCIAL STRATEGIES
- Cooperative with
others
- Empathizing with
others
METACOGNITIVE
STRATEGIES
- Centering your
learning
- Arranging and
planning your
learning

practice the rule: repeat

Work the different vocabulary with an
object.
Compare the grammar between
different languages.
Listening with the text and stop the
audio and ask a questions, the
students can interact.
Connect with their context.
Work vocabulary with games.
Connect the context of the language.

COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
Students work in groups and teacher put
the focus in the process.
The discussion is the most important part of
learning. Students need to review and
argue their ideas.
NOTES/ACTIVITIES
- Define one word using the context in
the tale and put other examples.
- One paper with some sentences and
the students need to think if are or a
fact or an opinion.
- Students reflect about their thinking
- Discuss about their opinions

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PG in English as an L3

CLIL lesson:
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?
v=SovzQchPeJU

HIGH SCHOOL

COGNITIVE STRATEGIES
- Analyze
- Summarizing
SOCIAL STRATEGIES
- Cooperative with
others
METACOGNITIVE
STRATEGIES
- Centering your
learning
- Evaluating your
learning
- Arranging and
planning your
learning

COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
The activities call for the students think and
produce in pair or in groups.
Teachers seeking communication between
students and reasoning to reach the
contents.
NOTES/ACTIVITIES
- Work in pairs
- Put in order some pieces of paper
- Concepts and definitions
- Fill in the gaps in a scheme
- 2 teachers
- Analyze information
- Relating concepts in groups of 4
- Ask and answer in pair with papers
- Review the most important concepts