SLA RESEARCH ON SELF-DIRECTION: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES

Aim: to increase learners' awareness of
strategies to improve their
speaking and listening

Checldist: learning strategies

Here is another version you could use. (See Activity Worksheets p.45)

If you're talking to someone and they
don't understand you, do you try to
say it a different way?

After you've Ieamt something new
in English, do you try to practise it
outside the classroom?

Ycs Sometimes No

Yes Sometimes No

When you're listening to a
conversation in English and you
don't understand everything, do
you try to guess the rest?

If you have an appointment with
someone and you know you'll have
to speak English, do you practise
first?

Yes Sometimes No

Yes Someone No

Do you listen to yourself
speaking English so you can find
your mistakes and try to correct
them?

Yes Sometimes No

Do you think about the things you
can't do in English (and would like
to be able to do) and try to find
ways to learn them?

Yes Sometimes No

If you see or hear something in
English that you don't understand,
do you ask someone to explain it
to you?

Yes Sometimes No .

If you would like to improve your
typing (or dessmaking, or carpentry
etc.) would you enrol in a course
that was only in English?

Yes Perhaps No

Ifyou really want to explain
something, do you try even if you
aren't sure of the right English?

Yes Sometimes No

When you're learning English,
what do you do that you think is
most helpful?

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