Cognitive Strategies and Metacognitive Strategies

Marsolaire Bonilla Jimenez

cognitive strategies 

• The cognitive strategies are metal and it is apply when the learner have new information 

Repetition

Resourcing

Translation

Note-taking

Deduction

Contextualisation

TransferInferencing

Question for clarification

 

• Repetition, when imitating others' speech

• Resourcing, having recourse to dictionaries and other materials

• Translation, that is, using their mother tongue as a basis for understanding and/or producing the target language

• note-taking

• Deduction., conscious application of L2 rules

• Question for clarification, when asking the teacher to explain

• Contextualisation, when embedding a word or phrase in a meaningful sequence

• Transfer, that is, using knowledge acquired in the L1 to remember and understand facts and sequences in the L2 

• Inferencing, when matching an unfamiliar word against available information (a new word etc)

Metacognitive Strategies

• Metacognitive knowledge is the declarative knowledge about cognition have to plan what strategies were used in each situation, implement, monitor the process, evaluate to affirm or to amend them

directed attentio

n

• when deciding in advance to concentrate on general aspects of a task

selective

attention

• paying attention to specific aspects of a task

self-monitor

ing

• checking one's performance as one speakself-evaluation self-

evaluation

• appraising one's performance in relation to one's own standard       self-

reinforcement

• rewarding oneself for success.

Metacognitive

REMEMBER

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue

growing as we continue to live.

You learn something every day if you pay attention.