Learning Strategy Training, Cooperative Learning, and Multiple Intelligences

Learning Strategy Training, Cooperative Learning, and Multiple Intelligences LEARNING STRATEGY TRAINING Learning strategy is the specific actions to make the students better in learning a second language.It suggests that teachers should elicit the problems of the students and try to develop a solution for them. Learning Strategy Training is based on problems students encounter in the process of learning target language. These problems are needed to be solved for an effective learning. First ,students are given the strategy and than they are expected to apply it. Learning Strategy Training focuses on learner training as much as language teaching. Students should be responsible for their own learning. They should follow their learning process and be aware of their deficient and efficent sides. They should also monitor theirselves and identify what they need. The teacher helps them to facilitate their learning and to be more effective in learning the target language. After the students get some learning strategies, they have a cognition about them. But they also have a metacognition which means that the students should be aware of the use of the strategies. The teacher plays a modelling role while teaching the strategies to the students. S/he applies the strategy on a contex in the class by thinking aloud. He attracts the students attentions on his beahviours and the way using the technique. As he is performing the techniques, he also informs the students what he gets by doing so. After he has introduced the strategy, he wants the students to practice on the paper given by himself. He directs the students while they are practicing and he asks questions about the practice and the students reply them. The students previous experiences are taken into account by the teacher which increase the motivation of them. The teacher also asks why they think so. There is two-way interaction between the teacher and the students. In this method, the teacher lets the student to think about their questions and guess the answer from the context rather than giving the answer directly. He gives feedbacks for their guesses and reinforces the answerss accuracy by looking at the context. After the practice is done, students discuss about their performances and they Express what they think about the usefullness of the strategy. They indentify what they acquire and what they need more. The teacher emboldens them they will achieve their difficulties over time using the strategy. He also announces that they should do more practice on the strategy out of the class and he reminds them how to use the strategy. These strategies will be useful for the students academic studies as well as their learning the target language.

Learning Strategy Training, Cooperative Learning, and Multiple Intelligences

Students should have some strategies in every field of their studies to be able to get much more success. COOPERATIVE LEARNING Before explaning what the cooperative learning means, lets think about the word sense of the cooperation. Cooperation means that common working together with the others. While studying cooperatively, every member of the certain groups takes responsibility for the existing task. But it is mostly a problem to keep the group members together and ensure that everyone carries out his/her responsibility. So the teacher need training his students to make them participate in a group working actively. In learning target language, group working is an inevitable way of effective learning. So cooperative learning assures that the students should learn how to operate in groups. There should be a way from interdependence to independence. This means that the students should learn how to act in a group according to the group members. They should be associated with each other and make an effort on the task. By working in groups, they will become conscious about their responsibilities and then they can implement any other tasks indivudually. First they will be dependent on each other and after they obtain the necessary skills they can act independently because each one of them will be able to achieve his/her responsiblity without delay. Now lets see how a language teacher can apply the strategy to a class. First he infoms the students that they will wok in groups on the specific subject. The subject items are distributed to the students in pieces. Each group is responsible for its own part. After each group study on its part, a number of group members are transfered to another group and some of them stay their own groups. By this , the students have chance to tell each other about their own parts. This continues with some other transferrings. All the students have an experience in each group and they acquire different parts of the complete subject,then they combine all the parts. At last, all the students gather in their original group and tell about what they have learned from the others and they construct a full story. This activity lets the students interract and communicate with each other. Also the activity helps the students learn about the subject by using the target language. while the students teach the specific subject to each other, they can reinforce their own learning and understanding. ( Learning through teaching is an effective way of learning) At the end of the activity, the students are asked to work together on new vocabulary items. Then the teacher informs them that they will take an individual test and the individual scores will also be combined with their groups scores.

Learning Strategy Training, Cooperative Learning, and Multiple Intelligences

He wirtes the criteria of the test on the board and then ask the students how they feel about the test. The students like the testing way and they give positive reflections to the teacher. The students complete the test by changing group member and then they evaluate their scores. All the students are given a duty for evaluation process .By this way the students learn to take responsibility and how to fullfil a task. As we see in the experience, peer observation is highly couraged. Each student play a mediator role in somehow. The students also develop their ability to make their group more effective. Individual testing implies that each student is responsible for own development. At the end of the test, it is teachers duty to inform the students how they are done well and how much a group have achived. There is a combination of teaching language and teaching other learning skills. Students should be given on social skills like in learner strategy training. Multiple-Intelligences Before telling about multiple intelligences, it will be useful to define what the intelligence means. Itelligence is the human capacity to think, understand and produce something with their thoughts. All humanbeings have a different capacity to think and understand ,of course. Their capacity can be associated with multiple-intelligences which are divided into seven particul categories: Logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, body/kinesthetic, musical/rytmic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, verbal/linguistic intelligences. This categorazion is really useful for effective learning. It has possitive effects in learning a second language,too. How can the language teacher teach the target language to his students by using multiple-intelligence? The teacher should be aware of his students capacity, If the students have struggle with learning the target language, what the teacher should do is to identify how the majority of his class can learn easly. This can be possible by applying the multiple-intelligences tests to the students. The teacher should teach by the way the students learn, not the way he likes. After he identify his students way, he should evaluate the results and develop a new teaching way accordance with some of the multiple-intelligences. This is all about problem based. The teacher should be aware of the students learning problems and produce a solutions for them. Multipleintelligences are really cut out for learning process.

Learning Strategy Training, Cooperative Learning, and Multiple Intelligences

ACTIVITIES A. 1. The difference between language training and learner training. Language training is based on the purpose of teaching the learners language. they learn all the things about a given language. they are expected to learn functions, rules, linguistic forms, how to use language and acquire the language skills also. This focuses on teaching language. on the other hand, learner trainig is based on learners and their problem sor difficulties in learning. n learner trainin, learners are provided with skills and strategies to be able to learn more easily and effectively. The correlation between two is that by training learners it can be easier to teach a language or learn a language or a specific topic. A.2. thinks us, not me. It sounds like a slogan focusing on a paticular sense. This is the idea the cooperative learning instruction suggests. We know that cooperative learning puts forward that learning should be by working together and interraction of the learners. as we see in the istruction above, students learn how to organize a group, the ability to take responsiblity in a group etc. working in a group requires some must which the most important is acting by taking into account all the group member. The member should not act individually.