Namangan davlat universiteti ingliz filologiyasi fakulteti amaliy ingliz tili kafedrasi

Activity 1, Handout 1
Answer the questions

1.What impact do learning styles and learning strategies have on second language learning?

2. What is the difference between learning styles and learning strategies?
3. Who is most likely to use learning strategies most often?
4. What types of learning strategies do students use?
Activity 2, Handout 2
A good language learner – Developing learning strategies

1. Learn the following Samoan (South Pacific) words:

Toalua Husband
Taamaloa Man
Tamatiti Child
Tauleatea Youth
Loomatua Old woman
Did you find this task
easy and fascinating?

1. 
   very difficult?
   
2. 
   not easy because the words look the same?
   
3. 
   so boring that you did not even try?
   

2. 
   Exhausted after swimming in the river Fred decided to get some sleep but the boolles made it impossible and even the smoke from the campfire did not keep them away.
   

Boolles are

1. 
   wild animals
   
2. 
   giant mosquitos
   
3. 
   noises
   
4. 
   don’t know
   

2. 
   Here is a new language
   

Ek kum chuchu The train is coming

Ek namas chuchu The train is very big
Nek kum niva chuchu The train is not coming
Ek chuchu It is a train
How would you say “It is not a train”?

2. 
   nek chuchu niva
   
3. 
   ek niva chuchu
   
4. 
   nek niva chuchu
   
5. 
   don’t know
   

4. You boss tells you that you have been chosen to go on a six month course to learn a completely new language . You….

1. 
   start looking for another job
   
2. 
   say that the boss chose the wrong person
   
3. 
   worry that you will not cope
   
4. 
   cannot wait to go
   

5. You take an evening class to learn a language. The class lasts 2 hours a week. List what sort of practice you might do on your own at home.

6. What do you prefer to use and why?

a) A bilingual dictionary
b) A monolingual dictionary
c) Both a bilingual and monolingual dictionary
d) I do not need a dictionary at all.

7. Read through this list of words, then write down as many of them as you can without looking.

Pin church identify luxury accelerate carefully miscalculate occasional anxious knot daffodil impertinent

8. In 20 seconds write a list of things you could do with a hairbrush apart from using it to brush your hair.

9. Fill in the blank with one of the words below.

Shakukomespiteare isos wonone ovofef tehe wororolid’s grematerest wriritererners. Hehe wasis ________ onin Staratafooorrd- inon Aravont.

1. 
   Borotone
   
2. 
   Born
   
3. 
   Shoroit
   
4. 
   I do not know
   

10. What is your attitude to learning something about British culture (art, literature, way of life)?

a) I do not need to know about it
b) I am interested a little bit, just out of curiosity
c) I am very interested to find out more about the people whose language I am learning