An Introduction to Applied Linguistics by Schmitt Norbert

Author:Schmitt, Norbert [Schmitt, Norbert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

Classifying Strategies According to Skill Areas

Yet another type of classification of strategies is by skill area. The receptive skills, listening and reading, and the productive skills, speaking and writing, are the four basic skill categories. There are, however, other skill areas as well. For example, there are strategies associated with vocabulary learning which cross-cut the four basic skills. There are strategies associated with the learning of grammar (see Oxford and Lee, 2007; Cohen and Pinilla-Herrera, 2009; for examples of grammar strategies for learning Spanish, see http://www.carla.umn.edu/strategies/sp_grammar/). Then, there is also the strategic use of translation, perhaps less conspicuous a skill area for strategizing, but undoubtedly an area that learners draw on. By translation, we are not referring to figurative or polished translation, but rather to the kind of literal or rough translation that most learners engage in from time to time or even extensively in order to function in all four of the basic skill areas (see Cohen, Oxford and Chi, 2002a, for a skill-based language strategy survey). Table 10.2 shows the skill-related strategy categories, along with representative examples of specific strategies.

Table 10.2 A brief sampling of strategies associated with different skill areas

Listening strategies

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