Hello everyone! I want to share some strategies I use when learn English especially speaking. There are more strategies in another English skills like in Listening, Reading and Writing. For now let me write about speaking first. I wish you like it, enjoy ….
In speaking
Cognitive strategies
1. I use rhymes to remember new English words
2. I try to remember new English words by pronouncing them
3. I speak a word or sentence several times to remember it
4. I try to learn a new pattern by making a sentence orally
5. I try to translate my language sentences into English sentences and produce them orally
6. I try to remember what the English word equivalent to my language word is
7. I tape record the sentences I produce
8. I mix my language words and English words if I do not know the English words
9. I put words into rules that I know in speaking
10. Before I respond orally to questions, I write out the answer
Metacognitive strategies
11. I try to correct my mistakes that I produce orally
12. I try to speak with my self to improve my speaking
13. I try to evaluate my utterance after speaking
14. I notice my English mistakes and use that information to help me do better
15. I prepare a topic or grammatical rules in speaking practice
Social strategies
16. I ask somebody to correct me when I talk
17. I practice speaking with my friends or my teachers
18. I practice English with native speaker
19. I ask questions in English
20. If I cannot think during a conversation in English, I use gestures
if you have another strategy in speaking, please specify
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Comments
we each have the pattern and the rythm of our language imprinted in our brain!
The only way to get round this is to live in the country of the language that you are
learning for a long time to hear it and speak it every single day.
evidently it is not still possible to.
By this I meant that at first you have to tune your ears.
a piece of advice :
Watch on 'BBC World News 'or any English-speaking channel.
At the same time you'll 'kill two birds with one stone' because unless you
have no gap about vocabulary you are going to improve it very fast.
don't focus only on your spoken language but on the listening.
Always pay attention to your speaker especially if he is native
rather than want to talk to say anything.
imitate his words, intonations, expressions, and try to understand them.
because this is the most difficult.
The rest will come naturally without realizing it.
attempts to engage in discussion with tourists and
never tell him your learning English. he doesn't care.
don't say ' excuse me for my bad english ' otherwise he'll say to you.
'Sorry I have to go home now'.
be confident, pretend to understand even if you did not.
speak in making gestures to help.
forget your language for the moment.
talk to yourself aloud (in English).
Meanwhile read comic strips.
the rest will come true in due course.
target is not to speak like natives.
You need no more than a comfortable intelligibility pronunciation.
Did you make yourself understood when you talked to the holydaymaker?
'be patient' said to me one teacher 'esl' member of 'ec'.
good luck fellows to speak English properly lol!
@Y.N i guess you imitate their way to speak from movies eh, hehe
thanks for comments ^_^
Way to go!
By the way, the approach teacher Gabriel introduced is practical. It also has helped me to memorize many new words. :)
As for me, I use the MMT Approach to remember the spelling, pronunciation and meaning of a word which is a new one on me! Try it! I'm sure you'll find it effective! ;-)
thank you very much Gabriel, i will try it ;)
i am glad you like it :)
Awesome strategies!
Thanks for sharing, LoliDragon.
Great!
Thanks for sharing all the ways you use to learn English.
thats COOL!!! xD
i wish i can be like you, extraordinary ^_^
I don't have any strategy. LOL. I just speak. Hmmm