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T1 Towards Greater Autonomy: Training in Metacognitive and Affective Learning Strategies Applied to Writing Skills in a University Context
A1 Oxbrow, Gina
AB In recent years, research in both cognitive psychology and secondlanguage acquisition has highlighted the fundamental role played byboth conscious and unconscious strategies in the process of learningsecond and foreign languages. It has been suggested that good languagelearners have at their disposition a variety of effective strategieswhich, once identified, can be taught to less successful learners, withconsiderable potential for the ongoing development of language skillsboth inside and outside the classroom. In such a learner-centred approach,the teacher can also play an active role by implementing anintegrated training programme in order to encourage learners to extendstrategy knowledge and use in order to gain greater autonomy. Thispaper examines explicit training in metacognitive and affective strategiesapplied to writing skills in English as a Foreign Language in auniversity learning environment, and attempts, by means of action researchundertaken in the classroom, to discover whether such an integratedprogramme of instruction leads to greater language proficiency.
SN e-2530-8335
YR 1999
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 18-nov-2024