Okayama JALT:

Metacognitive Language Learning Strategy Training for Japanese Learners of English as a Foreign Language

Date: Sunday, August 8th, 2004 Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Jason Williams

Description:
This presentation by Jason Williams introduces a study conducted on a group of 27 Japanese high school and university students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to determine the effectiveness of teaching metacognitive language learning strategies in helping students to actively engage in and manage their own learning. Students learned a combination of two of the following three strategies:

  1. using practice opportunities,
  2. self-evaluation and
  3. selective attention.
Williams incorporated the teaching, practice and evaluation of the strategies into already existing classes. The interventions were found to be successful as students exhibited

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