- 1. STYLES AND STRATEGIES
Siti Dewi Zatia Zahari
(GS35784)
Nurul Nadia Abdul Rahman
(GS38213)
Raja Noraidlin Sueraya Raja Arif Shah
(GS37739)
- 2. LEARNING STYLES
DEFINITION
Cognitive, affective, and
physiological traits that
are relatively stable
indicators of how
learners
perceive, interact with
and respond to the
learning environment
(Keefe ,1979)
A general predisposition
toward processing
information in a
particular way
(Skehan,1991)
an individual's natural or
habitual pattern of
acquiring and processing
information in learning
situations
- 3. Types
of
learning
styles
Field
independence
& field
dependence
Left &
right
dominance
Visual,
auditory and
kinesthetic
Reflectivity
and
impulsivity
Ambiguity
tolerance
- 4. Field Independence and Field Dependence
Differences
Field Independence Field Dependence
Ability to separate details from the
surrounding context
Inability to distinguish detail from
other information around it.
More independent, competitive and
self-confident.
More socialized, more emphatic and
perceptive of the feelings and
thoughts of others
Perform better in deductive lesson Perform better in inductive lesson
Analysis, attention to details,
mastering of exercises, drills
Communicative aspects
- 5. ‘find someone who' activity
find someone who has beard or moustache
find someone who is pregnant
find someone who is skinny
find someone who has curly hair
Find someone who wears black scarf
- 6. Left- and Right– Brain Dominance
Differences
Left Brain Right Brain
Analytical, led by logic Intuitive, led by feelings
Verbal, focusing on words, symbols,
numbers
Visual, focusing on images, patterns
Process ideas sequentially, step by step Process ideas simultaneously
objective subjective
Highly organized Lack in Organization
Prefer a deductive styles of teaching Prefer an inductive styles of teaching
- 7. Are You Right-Brained Or Left-Brained?
Test 1
• Cross your leg
• Which leg is on top?
• Left on top = A Right on top = B
- 8. Are You Right-Brained Or Left-Brained?
Test 2
• Which art piece do you like more?
A B
- 9. Are You Right-Brained Or Left-Brained?
Test 3
• Fold your hands
• Which thumb is on top?
• Right on top = A Left on top = B
- 10. Are You Right-Brained Or Left-Brained?
Test 4
• What does your closet look like?
A B
- 11. Are You Right-Brained Or Left-Brained?
If you have more B you are right-brainedIf you have more A you are left-brained
- 12. • If you got an even number of A and B
• You have attributes of both left and right
- 13. Ambiguity tolerance
Ambiguity tolerance
• Able to tolerate ideas and
propositions that contradict
to own belief system or
structure of knowledge
• Free to entertain innovative
and creative possibilities
• Too much tolerance of
ambiguity leads to ‘wishy-
washy’
Ambiguity intolerance
• Tend to reject items that are
contradictory with existing
system
• Avoid ‘wishy-washy’
• Rigid, dogmatic, brittle
mind
- 14. Reflectivity and Impulsivity
Reflectivity
• Slower, more calculated
decision
• Systematic
• Make fewer errors in reading
Impulsivity
•Quick or gambling guess at an
answer to a problem
•Intuitive
•Faster reader
- 15. Styles & Strategies of Language
Learning.
Styles and Strategies are NOT the same.
Learning Styles :
Audio
Visual
Kinesthetic
- 16. Autonomy
• Learners “take charge ” of their own learning.(
Pg.130)
• Debates about autonomy.
Aware
• Learners become aware of their own processes of
learning.
• Preferences
Action
• Appropriate action will be taken.
- 17. Chamot, 2005 defines strategies as “procedures
that facilitate a learning task…Strategies are
most often conscious and goal driven”
Strategies
- 18. Learning
Strategies
Metacognitive
strategies
Advance organizers
Directed attention
Selective attention
Self – Management
Functional planning
Self – monitoring
Delayed Production
Self – Evaluation
Cognitive Strategies
Repetition
Resourcing
Translation
Grouping
Note taking
Deduction
Recombination
Imagery
Auditory representation
Keyword
Contextualization
Elaboration
Inferencing
Transfer
Socioaffective
Strategies
Cooperation
Question for
clarification
- 19. Communication Strategies
Pertain to the employment of verbal or non-
verbal mechanisms for the productive
communication of information
Pertain to output, how meanings are
expressed and how messages are delivered.
- 20. Definitions of Communication Strategies
Faerch &
Kasper
(1983, p.36)
Bongaerts
& Poulisse,
(1989)
Potentially conscious plans for solving
what to an individual presents itself as a
problem in reaching a particular
communicative goal.
Learners bring all the possible aspects
of their growing competence in order to
send clear message in the second
language. Such strategies may or may
not be “potentially conscious”
- 21. Communication
Strategies
Avoidance
Strategies
Learners avoid using
certain forms in the
language learned
Common set of
communication devices
involves compensation
for missing knowledge
Compensatory
Strategies
- 22. Avoidance Strategies
Message
Abandonment
Topic
Avoidance
Leaving a message unfinished
because of language difficulty
Syntactic or lexical avoidance
and phonological avoidance
Whole topic of conversation
might be avoided entirely
- 23. Syntactic or
Lexical
Avoidance
I: I lost my
road
Us: You lost
your road?
I: Uh… I lost. I
lost. I got lost
Phonological
Avoidance
Use the word
“hit the ball”
instead of
“rally”
Topic
Avoidance
Avoid
discussing
past events
Examples
- 24. Compensatory Strategies
Stalling or time-gaining
strategies
Appeal for
help
Code-
switching
Literal
Translation
Circumlocution
Nonlinguistic
Signals
Foreignizing
Word Coinage
Prefabricated-
Pattern
Approximation
Use of all-
purpose words
- 25. Strategies-Based Instructions (1)
Application of both learning
and communication strategies
to classroom learning
Learner strategy training which
emphasizes the productive link
between styles and strategy
McDonough
(1999)
Cohen
(1998)
- 26. Strategies-Based Instructions (2)
Wenden
(1985)
Chamot
(2005)
Among the first to assert
that learner strategies are
the key to learner autonomy
One of the most important
goals of language teaching
should be the facilitation of
that autonomy
Explicit instruction is
far more effective than
simply asking students
to use one or more
strategies.
- 27. Strategies-Based Instructions (3)
Understand the strategy
Do not consider its
implementation to be overly
difficult
Perceive it to be effective
MacIntyre &
Noels
(1996) say,
students
will benefit
from SBI if
they:
- 28. The effectiveness of SBI involves several steps
and consideration
Effectiveness of SBI in Classrooms
1) Identifying learners’ styles and potential
strategies
2) Incorporating SBI in communicative
language courses and classrooms
3) Providing extra-class assistance for learners