This exciting new handbook provides teachers with practical guidelines and classroom-tested lessons and activities to teach ESL students how to use learning strategies. Written by experts in the field, this book is a highly accessible must-have guide for implementing learning strategies in the classroom.
¿The Learning Strategies Handbook provides teachers with clear directions and concrete support in accelerating students¿ language learning by means of a strategies-based approach . . .¿
¿Jim Cummins
Professor, Curriculum Department
Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education
This exciting new handbook provides teachers with practical guidelines and classroom-tested lessons and activities to teach ESL students how to use learning strategies. Written by experts in the field, this book is a highly accessible must-have guide for implementing learning strategies in the classroom.
Features:
- In-depth theory and research behind learning strategies.
- The relationship between CALLA (Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach) and learning strategies.
- Reproducible charts, graphs, checklists, and lessons that teachers can use for their own planning.
- Teaching tips, reflective questions, and classroom activities, for use with ESL students.