Types of Learning Strategies. How to Cope with a Foreign Language

Abstract

Being an EFL teacher means providing our students with knowledge, but also teaching them how to learn, monitor their performance and assess the outcome of their learning. We have the role to facilitate, support and improve students` learning by making them autonomous and responsible for their learning, by giving them the freedom to take initiative and create their own learning opportunities. In fact, our ultimate goal beyond the classroom experience is to give to our society autonomous individuals, capable of taking responsibilities and risks, knowing how to work more efficiently, finding solutions and applying learning and working strategies in everyday situations. This article is on how to build learners` autonomy and their capacity of making choices about what and how they learn, through training and strategy instruction.