Classification by O'malley and Chamot

O’Malley and Chamot classification is divided into three categories: metacognitive, cognitive and...

What is the metacognitive category about?

• Knowing about learning and controlling learning through planning, monitoring and evaluating the learning activity.

• Specific to distinct learning activities.

• Involve the learner in communicative interaction with another person.

What is the importance of metacognitive category?

• It helps in knowing about learning and controlling learning through planning, monitoring and evaluating the learning activity.

• It is specific to distinct learning activities.

• It involves the learner in communicative interaction with another person.

 

Involve the manipulation or transformation of the material to be learned.

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Social and affective strategies focus on the environmental management procedures used by the learners. These include the ability to interact with the learning environment (social) and of the learners to control their emotions, as well as learners’ motivation (affective).

• True

• False

What are the strategies involve the cognitive category?

• Collaborating with peers in problem-solving exercises.

• Repetition, grouping, deduction, imagery, auditory representation, key word method, inferencing, note taking, summarizing, recombination and translation.

• Advance organizers, directed attention, functional planning, selective attention and self-management.

Strategies of good language learners, once identified, and successfully taught to less competent learners, could have considerable potential for enhancing the development of second language skills, and that second language teachers could play an active and valuable role.

• True

• False

What was the O'malley and Chamot classification created for?

• To learn mathematics efficiently.

• It was created so that children could learn a language comfortably.

• It is designed to develop the academic language skills of students with limited English proficiency.

What is the role of social and affective strategies in language learning?

• They have no role in language learning

• They help in managing the learning environment and controlling emotions

• They are only useful for advanced learners

What are the subgroups of the metacognitive category?

• Question for clarification

  Cooperation

  Self-talk

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  Preparation

  Presentation

  Practice

  Evaluation

  Expansion activities

  Assessment

• Introduction

  Body

  Final

• Planning

  Monitoring

  Evaluation