From Strategies to Strategic Competence
in Language Learning
Joan Rubin
Joan Rubin Associates
4:00pm
Thursday, November 2, 2006
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Comments from Marlys Macken, Department of Linguistics
Abstract
The concept of learning strategies has increasingly been incorporated into Standards, textbooks, and lesson plans at all levels of education. At the same time, research into the factors which help increase learner ability to use strategies competently appear to rest less on the particular cognitive or affective strategies but more on learners’ ability to use this “enabling knowledge” to achieve their goals and be more competent at Learner Self-Management. This presentation will discuss the important relationship between this “enabling knowledge” and the skills of self-management. Effective use of this knowledge can make learners more strategically competent and more successful at learning a language.
All lectures in the series are free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Language Institute, with funding from the College of Letters and Science Anonymous Fund and the Schoenleber Foundation. |
