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Module 4: Current Directions in ELT Styles and Strategies in Second Language Learning & Technology in ELT Vũ Mai Trang ELT Division, HULIS, VNU 2 My two students Minh Long 3 Discuss • What is “learning styles”? Give examples. • Why do language teachers need to be aware of students’ individual learning styles? Watch & Compare (Prof Richards Felder, North Caroline State University, US) 4 • Learning styles: “An individual’s natural habitual and preferred way of learning” Christison 2003 Learning Styles 5 • Find out what learning styles you own. Do 6 Some classical learning styles models • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (1965) • Grace Fernard’s VAKT (1943) • Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory (1983) 7 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator • Extroversion vs. introversion • Sensing vs. intuition • Thinking vs. feeling • Judging vs. perceiving 8 Fernald’s VAKT Method • Visual • Auditory • Kinesthetic • Tactile • (Reading) 9 Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences 10 Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Intelligence type Capability and Perception Linguistic words and language Logical-Mathematical logic and numbers Musical music, sound, rhythm Bodily-Kinesthetic body movement control Spatial-Visual images and space Interpersonal other people's feelings Intrapersonal self-awareness [...]... Do • Work in pairs Task 3 ELT1 Coursebook, p.81 18 Learning styles Learning strategies • Natural, habitual, preferred, individual • Learnable • Often conscious • Be aware of it => learning strategies, teaching styles/instruction • Base on other factors, develop optimal ones 19 Do • In groups, draw a portrait of a good English learner with his/her learning strategies 20 The Good Language Learner • •... Meta-cognitive strategies Organizing, focusing, evaluating one’s own learning Compensatory strategies Make up for missing knowledge Affective strategies Handling emotions or attitudes Social strategies Cooperating with others in learning process (Oxford 1990) 15 Match Learning styles, planning, monitoring, evaluating Keeping a language learning diary, doing emotional checklists Guessing from context,... Strategies • Look again at Minh and Long: What do you think they would do to help their learning? • If you were their teacher, what learning ways would you teach them? 13 Learning Strategies • Learning strategies”: operations used by the learner to aid his/her learning 14 Learning Strategies Cognitive strategies Make association between new and known information, restructuring information, analyzing,... meaning Learns to think in the language Deals with affective aspects of learning Combines strategies as needed (Rubin 1975, Naiman et al 1975, Abraham and Vann 1987) 21 Implications for Teachers • Find out learners’ learning styles • Assess learning strategies • Attune to learners’ needs • Balance your teaching instructions • Teach learning strategies 22 Technology in ELT • Video/Recording • Computer... dimensions of learning styles • • • • • • • • • Field independence vs dependence Analytic vs global processing Cooperation vs competition Tolerance for ambiguity Physical vs sociological Left-brain vs right-brain Leveling vs sharpening of detail Reflectivity vs impulsivity Constricted vs flexible thinking 12 Learning Strategies • Look again at Minh and Long: What do you think they would do to help their learning? ... questions, cooperating with others, empathise with others Learning vocab/ grammar rules by sounds, locus techniques, body movement Guessing, using synonyms, gesture M A C S M C Metacognitive Affective Cognitive Social Mnemonic Compensation 16 What influences strategy choice? • • • • • • • • • • • Motivation Language learning environment Learning style and personality type Gender Beliefs Affective state... Technology in ELT • Video/Recording • Computer programmes • Internet • Software programmes (E-English) 23 Reflection • Think of the lesson today – How did it attempt to address different learner’s learning styles? – What learning strategies did it involve? – How did it make use of technology? 24 . habitual and preferred way of learning Christison 2003 Learning Styles 5 • Find out what learning styles you own. Do 6 Some classical learning styles models • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (1965) • Grace. individual learning styles? Watch & Compare (Prof Richards Felder, North Caroline State University, US) 4 • Learning styles: “An individual’s natural habitual and preferred way of learning . Directions in ELT Styles and Strategies in Second Language Learning & Technology in ELT Vũ Mai Trang ELT Division, HULIS, VNU 2 My two students Minh Long 3 Discuss • What is learning styles”? Give