Synopsis
This exciting new handbook provides teachers with practical guidelines and classroom-tested lessons and activities to teach ESL students how to use learning strategies. Written by experts in the field, this book is a highly accessible must-have guide for implementing learning strategies in the classroom.
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From the Back Cover
¿The Learning Strategies Handbook provides teachers with clear directions and concrete support in accelerating students¿ language learning by means of a strategies-based approach . . .¿
¿Jim Cummins
Professor, Curriculum Department
Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education
This exciting new handbook provides teachers with practical guidelines and classroom-tested lessons and activities to teach ESL students how to use learning strategies. Written by experts in the field, this book is a highly accessible must-have guide for implementing learning strategies in the classroom.
Features:
- In-depth theory and research behind learning strategies.
- The relationship between CALLA (Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach) and learning strategies.
- Reproducible charts, graphs, checklists, and lessons that teachers can use for their own planning.
- Teaching tips, reflective questions, and classroom activities, for use with ESL students.
About the Author
Jill Robbins is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of "Prodigal Son/Elder Brother: Interpretation and Alterity in Augustine, Petrarch, Kafka, Levinas," also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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