Self-regulated learning(SRL) -Metacognition in practice for

teaching and learning of Chinese

-Stella Zhang

At the end of this workshop you will:

• Know what Self-regulated learning is

• Understand how these strategies work in the learning of Chinese

• Be able to adopt and develop these strategies in your own teaching

• Write your Chinese name on a post-it

• Compare with each other

• What did you notice/find out?

• How can you sort out the problems arising?

Activity 1

What is Self-regulated learning?

• learners take control of their own learning. 学习者自我掌控自己的学习

自主学习

Monitor监控

Evaluate评估

Plan计划

Reflection反思

• Planning one’s own learning;

• Monitoring progress while implementing the plan;

• Evaluating the outcome of the plan once it's completed.

These are the three phases of the SRL cycle, along with the central importance of reflection throughout the process

Three major phases

MonitorEvaluate

Plan

Reflection

绿、黄、红、蓝、

紫• I can read the words

• I know the meanings of the words

• I can follow the correct stroke order to write the characters

• I can say the other colours

• I can use those words to describe things

Task: learn these words

Phase 1

• 我想先学哪种颜色，为什么？• 我一次可以学几个生词？• 我要先学认字还是认字、写字同时学习？• 我学习认字时可以用哪些方法？• 我学习写字时需要注意什么？怎样才能把字写好？• 除了这几种颜色我还想学习什么颜色？• 我什么时候可以进行生词测试？下课前？下节课时？下周？• 我可以用什么方法测试自己？看图写词？听写？用Quizlet？

Plan计划

• Analyse the learning task• Set learning goals• Plan learning strategies

Monitor监控

• 我读生词时是否注意了生词的读音和声调？

• 我写字时是否按照正确的笔画书写？

• 我写字时是否注意到字的结构要匀称？

• 我写字时是否注意到字的大小要一致？

• 我写字时是否注意到字的间距要均匀？

• Am I using the strategies as planned?• Am I staying focused?• Are the strategies working?

Phase 2

• 我是否读对了声调？• 我使用了哪些识字的方法？哪些方法对我来说效果好？• 我学会了哪些字？会读？会写？会造句子？不会写的字错在哪里？• 我写的字笔顺是否正确？• 我写的字结构是否匀称？• 我写的字大小是否一致？• 我写的字间距是否均匀？• 除了这些生字之外我还学会了哪些字？• 学会了这些字词我可以做什么？（描述衣服、蔬菜、水果等的颜色）• 下一次在学习生字词时我要注意什么？

Evaluate

评价

• Am I meeting my learning goals?• Did I use the strategies properly? • Was the strategy a good match to the

type of learning task?

Phase 3

Working in groups as if you are students learning Chinese:

• create a poster - draw a visual (picture) to show each phase of Self-regulated learning

• present your poster and share with the whole group

Activity 2

教师和学生的

参与度

• I know what Self-regulated learning is

• I understand how these strategies work when learning Chinese

• I can adopt and develop these strategies in my teaching