INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS TO A THE STRATEGY WORD ANS ITS APPLIACTION TO THE LANGIUAGE LEARNING PROCESS.

A strategy is a PLAN to direct something like, for example, a process. These PLANNING ACTIONS (the strategy) will help us to take decisions or to have better results on whatever we apply the strategy.

Everyone has used a strategy sometime, because, as I mentioned before, it helps people in different processes, and one of them could be the learning process. The word GOAL is an important one here, due to every planning action has one.

The learning process has as a goal be able to learn something; because of our subject is about language learning, I’m going to talk about some planning actions that I have put on practice, and I still do, to learn a foreign language, in this case English.

Firstly, I use my attention (metacognitive strategy) during the English lessons or while I’m watching a good movie or listening a song to catch the most I can of what’s been said. 

Also I try to use my English when I’m with friends or people able to speak it (social strategy). During my high years, I remember that the memory (memory strategy) was a good ally for the language learning because in every unit, we had to study a lot of vocabulary.

A communication strategy makes us see that through the communication a problem or problems can be solved. The communication exists because we use different kinds of it to keep communicate with others; one of them is using a language. So, as the learning strategies, the communication strategy helps us to achieve our goal, in this case, be able to communicate something to someone.

                   

In my opinion, the learning strategies (mentioned above) and the communication ones, are similar, because when I have communication with someone I use my attention to listen the other, I use my social skills because you need another person and I use my memory because I (we) always use things that I (we) remember when we have communication with somebody.

In the conclusion, I want to use another word that needs capital letters: INTENTION. In all kinds of strategies we need a good planning to achieve a goal, and in these planning actions there’s always an intention, the intention to improve something like the processes that I’ve been talking about in these short, but I hope, helpful letters.

WEBGRAPHY USED:

http://www.significados.com/estrategia/

http://www.bloguismo.com/13-claves-de-una-estrategia-de-comunicacion-2-0-para-el-pequeno-comercio/
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