Facultat dEducaci

PG in English as an L3

The Strategy Factor in Language Learning

Case studies

Nr.

Video
Kindergarten ESL
lesson:
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=q2tGtw1_W_E

Context
Infant
Education
English
lesson

Strategies identified

Imitations
Gestures
Repetitions of structures
Songs and Images
Labeled material

Teaching approach and comments

The students repeat all that the teacher says. At
the beginning, it seems they dont understand
what they are saying, but actually they know lot
of vocabulary.
They watch a video and the teacher makes
answers regarding it. She/he makes sure that
they have understood the video.
Everything based in oral skills.
The teaching-learning process it seems to be a
routine. They repeat very day what they know to
say.
I like the way that the teacher keeps the
participation and attention grade into the students
and at the same time the silence and the control
of the group.

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Learning new words:

https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=0fUlS_aGQ1I

Kindergarten
. They dont
have high
exposure to
English.

Repetitions
Use of bits
Rythmatic

Angls Escola Joviat:

https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=hlh-zjSPNVk

Kindergarten
, primary
and ESO
education

Songs with body movements

Repetitions
Use of objects
Theoretical English Grammar
In primary: they repeat what
the teacher says

Learning Strategies:
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=sEx8_Z_a0Cg

ESO.
Immigrant
teenagers

Translation to L1
Audiolingualism
Error correction on propose
Grammar translation
Metacognitive strategies

The teacher waits until the students repeat the

word/structure. She/he doesnt ask them to
repeat it
Few students
They localized the hidden object
They just work with vocabulary and with closed
structures
Fix grammar structures
Based in speaking skills
Based also in guessing the name of the objects
regarding to the teachers question

Kindergarten: small groups. All the body is

involved in English
Primary: The teacher is telling a story and the
students repeat what the teacher says. It seems
it doesnt have sense. They also have visual and
tactile supports.
ESO: the teacher is teaching grammar with fixed
structures and at the same time she makes them
conscious of the sentence analysis (S+V+DO...).
Metacognitive grammar strategies in order to be
conscious about how they are learning
The tasks involve all the group but the teacher
gives them an individual support
They start from brainstorming

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Building community in a
multi-language
classroom:
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=KduFyBohX4g

Los Angeles.
The students
are not
English
native
speakers

The teacher combine different

strategies
She sets connections with
everything they do
Metacognitive skills. She
wants that her student were
aware of what they are doing
They make them work in
groups.

The teacher makes everybody stops until

everybody understands what shes explaining.
The teacher is severe with the students.
She creates a learning community where each
student has a responsibility
The students have lack of vocabulary in their
own language, so she needs to find other
strategies to translate them a word: gestures.
They connect what they do in class with personal
experiences
The teacher work in the topic that the students
are interested in.
Language is developed when they play game
because they have to interact with each other

Model for teaching ESL

learners:
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=lVGbz4EqyGs

Primary
school. 3rd
Grade

The teacher makes an English

immersion approach
She uses an indirect method
Metacognitive strategies:
the teacher explains what are
they going know when they
finish the lesson
Content + language at the
same time

Metacognitive: the teacher ask them how to

solve/learn a concept or a problem.
The students are actively involved in the task not
just listening.
They have high English level
They work the critical thinking and the public
speech
The lessons also have a communicative
approach.
She makes them to defend their own arguments
or ideas in public

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CLIL lesson:
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=SovzQchPeJU

Primary/
Secondary
lesson

They learn contents in

English, without focusing in it.
Immersion approach
Direct method
Social/community learning

Metacognitive strategies: they assess themselves

and their learning process
The students are completely involved in what
they are learning
Co-teaching during the lesson
They use support materials
The teachers offer scaffolds to help them to
express themselves better giving oral arguments.