Language learning strategies have been given a large role in the Swedish curriculum for modern languages and the usage of strategies is one of the requirements for getting a passing grade in the subject. However, language learning strategies is a term that is hard to grasp when seeing it without a context. Even in a context it can be hard to explain what is really meant. This study tries to explain what language learning strategies are in relation to the Swedish school system and aims to find out if these strategies are to be found and how they are used in two Swedish-German textbooks.The study shows that there are no explicit examples where a certain type of languagelearning strategy is to be found. Nevertheless, there are multiple instances where both books offer assignments that can lead to the usage of said strategies.

I denna systematiska litteraturstudie presenteras resultat av vad tidigare forskning konstaterat om lässtrategier i frågan om hur de används och vad de innebär för elever i skolåren 9–12. Uppsatsen visar att den utbildningsforskning som berört lässtrategier under de senaste tio åren inte behandlar strategisk läsning med konsensus i begrepp eller förklaringsmodeller, utan att det istället finns olika synpunkter om både vad lässtrategier är och vad de innebär för läsaren. Studien visar också att lässtrategier används frekvent hos elever i skolåren 9–12 inom och utanför Sverige, både bland skickliga läsare och bland mindre skickliga läsare, för att främja läsförståelse. Vad som skiljer dessa skickliga respektive mindre skickliga läsare från varandra tycks till viss del vara kvaliteten av deras strategiska läsning och hur de använder lässtrategier till sin fördel för att förstå text. Uppsatsen undersöker olika aspekter av lässtrategier och konstaterar att det finns främst tre faktorer som påverkar lässtrategiers effektivitet. Dessa är: 1) Huruvida eleven besitter metakognitiv medvetenhet och gör aktiva val vid strategisk läsning. 2) Elevens förmåga att kombinera olika strategier med varandra. 3) Elevens förmåga att utvärdera sin egen läsning. / In this systematic review, results of previous research on strategic reading were analyzed and presented regarding the question of how students (year 9–12) use reading strategies, and what these strategies mean to reading comprehension levels. The review found that studies which have investigated strategic reading during the past ten years subscribe to different viewpoints and models regarding what reading strategies are, how they should be described, as well as how they should be used by students to further their reading comprehension. While the review further concludes that both good readers and less skilled readers among students in secondary school, frequently do use reading strategies, it also provides evidence to support the idea that these strategies must be used in a certain way for them to be effective. The review presents information from previous research which pertains to the different aspects of reading strategy, and what makes strategic reading effective in terms of furthering reading comprehension. These aspects include: 1) The level of metacognitive awareness that the reader possesses when choosing and using strategies. 2) The readers ability to effectively combine strategies with each other. 3) The readers level of insight into his or her strategy use via the use of control strategies and reflection.

This study attempted to investigate and describe the implementation and evaluation of meta-cognitive reading comprehension strategies taught in the context of the Success For All Reading Wings program. Five teachers of fourth and fifth grade classrooms, with limited experience in a Success For All Reading Wings program at a Northern California elementary school, were sampled on a Literacy Orientation Survey (LOS), a survey of their beliefs and practices in their teaching of reading, individually interviewed about reading instruction and practices, and observed instructing students in reading comprehension using two reading strategies: clarification and summarization. The findings of the study revealed that teaching style, beliefs and practices are determined through the Literacy Orientation Survey (LOS), as well as through teacher interviews and classroom observations. Direct instruction, modeling, cooperative learning, and reciprocal teaching were used. Students were observed using meta-cognitive reading strategies, particularly clarification and summarization. Also, students improved during the ten week study in the quality of their discussions of expository text, used more questions at a higher critical level of thinking, based on Bloom's taxonomy, and achieved higher comprehension test scores on reading selections as determined by district norm-referenced tests. Implications for teaching and research are presented.

La compréhension orale est une activité langagière complexe, redoutée par les élèves francophones, qui obtiennent de faibles résultats. Face à ces difficultés, les autorités éducatives encouragent les professeurs à utiliser les TICE (Technologies de l'Information et la Communication pour l'Enseignement), dont ils ne perçoivent pas toujours les plus-values. Partant de l'hypothèse que pour améliorer les compétences des élèves il faudrait entraîner ceux-ci en développant des stratégies d'apprentissage, en particulier métacognitives, cette étude a cherché comment intégrer le baladeur vidéo numérique pour entraîner à la compréhension orale. Elle fait état d'une expérimentation menée pendant quatre mois dans quatre classes de première en lycée général, chaque groupe travaillant selon un protocole différent, visant à tester l'effet de l'usage de baladeurs vidéo numériques et du développement explicite de stratégies de compréhension orale. On a cherché dans quelle mesure l'usage de l'outil numérique utilisé pouvait être porteur de motivation et constaté qu'il permettait aux élèves de s'investir davantage dans l'activité, mais sans que ceci améliore nécessairement l'apprentissage. Au travers des parcours créés sur les baladeurs, on a cherché à développer des stratégies cognitives et métacognitives, et observé que l'usage des élèves ne suivait pas toujours les usages prescrits, ainsi que des changements dans la classe en termes d'interactions. L'usage du baladeur et des stratégies développées a eu un impact sur les performances des élèves en termes de métacognition et perception, mais pas en termes de niveau de compréhension. Ces résultats amènent à s'interroger sur les manières de soutenir et entraîner les apprenants à la compréhension orale en anglais, et à aborder plus généralement la problématique des aides dans l'apprentissage des langues médiatisé par les technologies. / Listening is a complex language competence, dreadful to French students, whose results are low. In reaction to those difficulties, educational authorities encourage teachers to use digital tools whose advantages are not always clear for teachers. Assuming that students should be trained with learning strategies, particularly metacognitive strategies, this study tried to assess how digital video players could develop listening skills. It relates an experiment which took place in a French high school during a four-month period, with four groups working differently, in order to test the use of digital video players and of explicit listening strategies. The use of digital video players played a role in the motivation of students as it enabled them to be engaged in the activity, which did not necessarily mean they were learning more. Guided work on the video players aimed at developing cognitive and metacognitive strategies, and we observed the way students complied with the guidelines they had been given, as well as the changes introduced in the classroom in terms of interactions. The use of digital video players and strategies had an impact on the students' skills in terms of metacognition and perception, but not on the students' listening performance. Those results question the way listeners should be helped and trained when listening to English texts, and more broadly how to deal with the issue of technology-mediated language learning.

O presente trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa-ação implementada no Ensino Fundamental em Palmas/TO. Baseada no paradigma interpretativista, esta investigação procura desempenhar um papel ativo no equacionamento do problema levantado, na execução, no acompanhamento e na avaliação das ações planejadas, como requer este modelo de pesquisa. O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar crítico-descritivamente a implementação do projeto de leitura ‘Hora da poesia’ em uma turma do 9° ano do EF no âmbito do Colégio Estadual Girassol de Tempo Integral Augusto dos Anjos. Como proposta de intervenção, o foco desse projeto era a formação de memórias, a promoção do ensino e aprendizagem pelo emprego das estratégias metacognitivas vocalização, visualização e conexão na leitura de poemas, de forma prazerosa e diferenciada, visando ademais à fruição do texto literário e a formação de leitores proficientes. Outrossim, a partir do desenvolvimento sistemático das atividades delineadas no projeto, visamos apresentar uma proposta didático-metodológica para a abordagem do texto poético na educação básica, visto que muitos professores de Língua Portuguesa e Leitura sentem dificuldade em realizar uma prática de leitura de poemas sob uma perspectiva mais prazerosa, diferenciada e envolvente. Elaboramos o projeto esperando contribuir com a prática docente, bem como refletir sobre a nossa atuação na esfera escolar, enquanto professor de Português e leitura. Esta pesquisa se justifica devido à constatação de que as práticas de leitura de poesia em sala de aula como também os índices de avaliação leitora não são satisfatórios, como mostram o PISA e o SAEB. Os principais dados da investigação foram gerados a partir de aplicação de questionário, filmagem de aula, e caderno de atividades dos alunos. Implementamos o projeto no segundo semestre de 2014, em 17h/a, junto a 31 colaboradores da turma 92.01. Como procedimentos didático-metodológicos no desenvolvimento das atividades nos valemos, dentre outros, de exposição dialogada, discussão grupal, seminário, performance leitora e produção de vídeos e de ilustração. Como fundamentação, discutimos os aspectos sociocognitivos da memória e da leitura, o letramento literário poético, os documentos oficiais norteadores da leitura de poema na sala de aula, buscando mostrar a atividade leitora de poesia como uma forma de criação de memórias, mobilizando, para tal, noções teóricas da semiótica (matrizes da linguagem e pensamento) e da ciência cognitiva (estratégias metacognitivas de leitura, aspectos sociais e neurocientíficos da leitura e da memória). Discutimos que o sistema nervoso central (especialmente as áreas occipto-temporal esquerdo, hipocampo, amígdala, regiões cerebrais responsáveis pela leitura e pela formação e armazenamento de memórias) se modifica através da aprendizagem, da leitura. Os resultados demonstram que trabalhar por estratégias, ler com uma finalidade em mente, favorece a aproximação do aluno com o texto literário, aumentando o gosto pelo texto poético, além de dinamizar a aula. Os resultados permitem-nos concluir que o ensino sistemático de estratégias metacognitivas de leitura pode desenvolver a compreensão das imagens poéticas e se constitui como uma alternativa metodológica para o ensino de leitura literária. / This work is the result of an action research implemented in the elementary school in Palmas/TO. Based on the interpretative paradigm, this research seeks to play an active role in solving the problem raised, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of planned actions, as required by this research model. The objective of this dissertation is to analyze critical-descriptively the implementation of the reading project 'Poetry Hour' in a class of 9th grade of EF in the scope of Colégio Girassol de Tempo Integral Augusto dos Anjos. As an intervention measure, the focus of this project was formation memories, the promotion of teaching and learning by the use of metacognitive strategies vocalization, display and connection in reading poems, in a pleasant and different way, aiming besides to the fruition of the literary text and formation proficient readers. Moreover, from the systematic development of activities outlined in the project, we aim to present a didactic and methodological proposal to the poetic text approach in basic education, since many Portuguese Language and Reading teachers find it difficult to conduct a practice of reading poems under a more pleasant prospect, differentiated and engaging. We developed the project waiting to contribute to the teaching practice and reflect on our performance in the school sphere, as a teacher of Portuguese and Reading. This research is justified due to the fact that the poetry reading practices in the classroom as well as the evaluation indices reader are not satisfactory, as shown by the PISA and the SAEB. The main data of the research were generated from a questionnaire, lesson of shooting, and the student activity book. We implemented the project in the second half of 2014, in 17h/a, along with 31 collaborators in the class 92.01. As a didactical and methodological procedures in the development of the activities we make use, among others, through dialogue exposure, group discussion, seminar, reader performance and video production and illustration. In support, we discuss sociocognitive aspects of memory and reading the literary poetic literacy, guiding the official documents of the poem read in the classroom, trying to show the poetry reader activity as a way of creating memories, mobilizing, for this , theoretical notions of semiotics (matrices of language and thought) and cognitive science (metacognitive strategies of reading, social and neuroscientific aspects of reading and memory). We discuss the central nervous system (especially occipto left temporal areas, hippocampus, amygdala, cerebral regions responsible for reading and the formation and storage memories) is modified by learning, reading. The results demonstrate that by working strategies, read with a purpose in mind, favors the approach of the student with the literary text, enhancing the taste for poetic text and streamline the class. The results allow us to conclude that the systematic teaching of reading metacognitive strategies can develop an understanding of the poetic images and is constituted as a methodological alternative to the reading literary teaching.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:58:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Martha Angelica Sossai.pdf: 1111606 bytes, checksum: 2ea98701e98c15a13d2eddc68a15f944 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-16 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The present paper intends to analyze about reading comprehension s strategies that students used to practice before, during and after reading. It was realized through questionnaire and a structured interview, both were applied by direct contact. The aim of our study was to know and to study the student s testimony about reading comprehension s strategies applied in texts wrote on teaching and learning process. On this search, newcomers and conclusives students of Language Arts course from private College on São Paulo inland were interviewed based on the perspective of interactive reading. For this study, we observed, described and analyzed the student s testimony about reading comprehension s strategies with goal to know and to help the teacher practice on Higher Education. The population research was formed by forty-five Language Arts students, twenty newcomers and twenty-five conclusive students registered in 2008 on the L.A. course. With this paper we concluded that metacognitive reading strategies can be a way to solve the reading comprehension problem in Higher Education. We concluded with this study that the metacognitive reading strategies can be a path to the problem solve of reading comprehension in Higher Education / O presente trabalho aduz um estudo a respeito das estratégias de compreensão leitora utilizadas pelos alunos antes, durante e depois da leitura. Sua realização deu-se por meio de um questionário organizado com perguntas mistas e de uma entrevista semi-estruturada, sendo ambos aplicados por contato direto. O objetivo de nosso estudo foi conhecer e estudar o depoimento de alunos, ingressantes e concluintes, do curso de Letras, de uma Faculdade Particular do Interior Paulista, sobre as estratégias de Compreensão Leitora utilizadas/vivenciadas em textos escritos no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, com base na perspectiva interativa de leitura. Mais especificamente, a partir da caracterização dos sujeitos: identificamos, descrevemos e analisamos o depoimento dos alunos iniciantes e concluintes a respeito das estratégias de compreensão leitora com a finalidade de obter uma maior familiaridade com o assunto e subsidiar a atuação prática do professor no Ensino Superior. A população da pesquisa foi constituída por quarenta e cinco alunos, dos quais vinte eram iniciantes e vinte e cinco eram concluintes, matriculados em 2008, em um curso de Letras de uma Faculdade Particular do Interior Paulista. Concluímos, com este estudo, que as Estratégias Metacognitivas de Leitura podem ser um caminho para o problema da Compreensão Leitora no Ensino Superior

Neben der Frage nach der leistungssteigernden Wirkung von sogenannten "Ich-kann"-Checklisten auf die Metakognitionsstrategien der Schülerinnen und Schüler, geht die Arbeit auch den Fragen nach, welche Schülerinnen und Schüler "Ich-kann"-Checklisten nutzen, in welcher Form und unter welchen Kontextmerkmalen sie am wirksamsten sind. Dabei handelt es sich um Listen mit festgelegten, fachlichen und überfachlichen Kompetenzen einer bzw. mehrerer Unterrichtseinheiten, die in Form von „Ich-kann“-Formulierungen für Schüler geschrieben sind und die Aufforderung einer Selbst- und Fremdeinschätzung beinhalten. Blickt man in die Veröffentlichungen der letzten Jahre zu diesem Thema und in die schulische Praxis, so ist eine deutliche Hinwendung zur Entwicklung und Arbeit mit „Ich-kann“-Checklisten und Kompetenzrastern zu erkennen. Umso erstaunlicher ist es, dass diesbezüglich so gut wie keine empirischen Untersuchungen vorliegen (vgl. Bastian & Merziger, 2007; Merziger, 2007). Basierend auf einer quantitativen Erhebung von 197 Gymnasialschülerinnen und -schülern in der 7. Jahrgangsstufe im Fach Deutsch wurde über einen Zeitraum von zwei Jahren diesen übergeordneten Fragen nachgegangen. Die Ergebnisse lassen die Aussagen zu, dass "Ich-kann"-Checklisten insbesondere für Jungen ein wirksames pädagogisches Instrument der Selbstregulation darstellen. So fördert die Arbeit mit "Ich-kann"-Checklisten nicht nur die Steuerung eigener Lernprozesse, sondern auch die Anstrengungsbereitschaft der Schülerinnen und Schüler, mehr für das Fach tun zu wollen. Eine während der Intervention erfolgte Selbsteinschätzung über den Leistungsstand mittels der "Ich-kann"-Checklisten fördert dabei den freiwilligen außerunterrichtlichen Gebrauch. / This paper examines the performance enhancing effect of so called “Can Do” checklists on the metacognitive strategies of 13 to 14 year old Gymnasium students. This study analyzes which students actually use “Can Do” checklists, in what form they apply them, and the specific circumstances in which they appear to be most effective. These checklists define fundamental, subject-specific, and interdisciplinary competencies that are formulated into written “Can Do” lessons that require both self-assessment and third-party assessment. The increasing development and application of “Can Do” checklists and performance metrics is clearly seen both in the recent scholarly papers that address this issue and in classroom practice. The fact that this trend is emerging despite the lack of empirical studies is particularly surprising (e.g. Bastian & Merzinger, 2007; Merzinger, 2007). These salient questions were examined through analysis of a two-year quantitative survey that monitored two consecutive classes of 197 Gymnasium students in their German class during their 7th academic year. The results of this study indicate that “Can Do” checklists are an effective pedagogical tool for self-evaluation especially for boys. Applying this methodology both fosters self management of the learning process and motivates the student to invest more effort into the subject. The benefits of continuous performance self-assessment using “Can Do” checklists also transfer voluntarily beyond the classroom.

Due to a lack of effective writing strategies and inhibition of English language proficiency, university students in China are found to produce little and shallow content in their English academic writing. Similar problems are also embodied in the academic writing of Chinese overseas students who struggle to survive in the target academic community. The purpose of this study was to investigate the writing processes of second language (L2) writers, specifically examining the writing strategies of three Chinese post-graduate students in an Australian higher education institution. The study was prompted by the paucity of research in the writing strategies used by Chinese students in English academic writing in an authentic context. Although it was too small in scale to generalise in the field of L2 writing, the study will stimulate research in L2 writing theory and practice. Based on a review of theories related to L2 writing and research in Chinese and English writing strategies, the writing strategies used by three Chinese post-graduate students while writing academic papers in English were investigated. Their understandings of English and Chinese writing processes, the issue of transfer of Chinese writing into English writing and cultural influence of native language on L2 writing were explored as well. Qualitative hermeneutic multi-case study methods were employed to provide a richer description of the writing strategies used by the three students to develop a deeper understanding of the L2 writing process. Data were provided by three Chinese post-graduate student writers in Public Health who were observed undertaking different tasks. Ally, a Masters student, was observed completing one of the assignments for a course. Susan and Roger, both doctoral students, were observed working on a second stage proposal and a journal paper respectively. Data collected from semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, retrospective post-writing discussions and papers were categorised and analysed using topical structure analysis and cohesion analysis. The findings suggest that writing in a second language is a complicated idiosyncratic developmental process influenced by cognitive development, social/educational experience, the writer's first language (L1) and second language (L2) proficiency and cultural factors as well. These proficient writers were found to utilise a broad range of writing strategies while writing academic papers in English. This study in some degree supports Silva's (1993) finding that the L2 writing process is strategically, rhetorically, and linguistically different from the L1 writing process. Most of the metacognitve, cognitive, communicative and social/affective strategies except rhetorical strategies (operationally defined in this study as organisation of text or paragraphs) were found to transfer across languages positively. These student writers were noticed to have difficulties in acculturating into the target academic discourse community because of their background of reader-responsibility which is regarded as a crucial feature in Eastern rhetoric and is distinguished from writer-responsibility in English rhetoric (Hinds, 1987, 1990).

La rencontre permanente des langues et des identités culturelles est une évolution incontournable qui fait suite à l’accroissement de la mobilité des populations au cours de ces dernières années. Elle entraîne une évolution de la composition des sociétés qui implique une éducation linguistique adaptée aux nouveaux besoins de communication plurielle des individus. Les alliances interlinguistiques et l’intercompréhension de plusieurs langues sont des stratégies favorisant le plurilinguisme et permettant de gérer les conflits éventuels dus aux chocs interculturels et interlinguistiques. Les compétences métacognitives transversales et les capacités intellectuelles polyvalentes que ces stratégies plurilingues développent semblent parfaitement adaptées aux besoins de notre société mondialisée qui demande des capacités de réflexion stratégique pour faciliter la résolution des problèmes interculturels. / The permanent contact between languages and cultural identities is an incontrovertible evolution that results from the last few years’ increase in the population mobility. It brings an evolution in the composition of societies that involves a linguistic education which is adapted in the people’s need for plural communication. Interlinguistic alliances and intercomprehension of several languages are strategies that promote pluringuism and permit to settle the disputes resulting from intercultural and interlinguistic shocks. Metacognitive transversal skills and the polyvalent intellectual abilities developed by these plurilingual strategies seem to be perfectly adapted in the needs of our globalized society which demands abilities of strategic reflection in order to facilitate solving intercultural problems.

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of the students' learning strategies at a primary school. The strategies are demonstrated at an example of a foreign language. Based on this example, more general rules for using strategies in other areas are being searched. The strategies are understood as specific steps and methods used in the learning process. They are anchored in the curriculum documents, in particular under the learning competence. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on existing literature and it analyses learning styles and strategies of students at a primary school with the focus on a foreign language. The aim of the thesis is to find out to what extent students of the fifth grade use language strategies and what role a teacher's support plays. For the research, the questionnaire "Strategie učení se cizímu jazyku" was used. The thesis is also based on qualitative research consisting of observations and interviews with the teachers. The results show that the fifth-grade primary school students use the foreign language learning strategies to a limited degree. However, the teachers' support has an effect on the usage. KEYWORDS Learning strategies, learning styles, learning competence, support of the learning strategies, foreign language, metacognitive strategies