Learner Strategies

What are learning strategies?

Learning strategies are councsious behaviors that students use to acquire, storage, recall, and use information. It is said that good students use a variety of these strategies when they are learning something.

Language learning strategies are refered to the counscious and semicounsciousthoughts that learners use in order to improve their knowledge of a target language.


Language use Strategies are the ones students apply when using the language that has been learned, here we find:

• Retrieval Strategies: which are used in order to call up language material from storage, for example calling up the correct verb in its appropriate tense.
• Rehearsal Strategies: for practising target language structures, for instance rehearsing verb tenses that will be used on a test later.
• Communication Strategies: used to convey a message that is meaningful and informative, for example: when we want to explain technixcal information for which we don't have the specialized vocabulary.
• Cover Strategies: used when we want to create a language ability to show the other people that we know things, in order to not to look foolish, for example laughing at a joke that we didn't understand ( we all have donde that some time)

Self-motivating strategies which are used by learners to protect or increase their motivation. for example avoiding distractions such as music, television, etc.