Action planning in learning auditory learner roles, styles and strategies

Learner training in this case is about developing students' awareness of how they learn. It aims to develop students' learning strategies with the intention of making learners more effective and independent. Learner training can be started with students as young as 5 years old! The article that follows contains learner training activities you could try with your young learner students.
Involve the students in planning the course
With older teenage students this can be particularly rewarding. Using a copy of the basic syllabus the class look through the plan of units in the course book. ( This can usually be found at the beginning of the book). Anything on the syllabus and in the book we mark as "compulsory". Anything else we mark as "we'd like to do if we have time" or "definitely not". This involves the students in the decision-making process and takes away the feeling of slogging through the book for no particular reason.

Learner goals
At the beginning of each term ask students to make 3 resolutions about learning English. Try to make them realistic, achievable and specific.

For example:

I'm going to have a dictionary beside me when I'm writing.

I'm going to do homework on time.

I'm going to keep vocabulary notebook up to date.

At the end of the term ask the students if they managed to keep their resolutions.