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Language learning strategies (LLS)
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Key Stage 2 Framework for languages
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| An important aim of language learning in key stage 2 is to familiarise children with strategies which they can apply to the learning of any language. In the early years children should develop an awareness of some of the basic approaches to learning a new language which they will be using, e.g. imitating, memorising, repeating and practising, using mime and gesture, asking for repetition. As they increase their competence in the target language, they will be able to apply learning strategies to help them use known language in new contexts, identify key words and phrases in speech and in simple written texts and use word lists and dictionaries.
Children can be helped to see how they have used language learning strategies in the acquisition of their first language(s), how they are using them in learning the new language and how they might use them in future language learning as well as in more general learning in other areas of the curriculum.
The objectives for language learning strategies are integrated into the learning objectives and learning opportunities for the core strands, oracy, literacy and intercultural understanding. It is assumed that these integrated versions will be used for day-to-day planning purposes. In order to provide an overview of how LLS can be fostered throughout language learning, this section classifies LLS into six main categories and draws together some key examples of strategies that should support learners to make progress. This section can be used to further develop the learning programmes and will assist in monitoring course content in order to widen the range of language learning strategies that learners experience. |
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