Delineating Latino Student's Reading Strategies

This paper reports on a small-scale study carried out to investígate and identify the learning strategies used by a student to improve second lan-guage learning along with reading comprehension. The study comprised a learnerfromaSpanish-speakingbackground performing a reading taskand undertaking a p...

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Autor principal: Cataldo López,Mauricio
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez 2008
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spelling oai:scielo:S0716-581120080001000152013-11-14Delineating Latino Student's Reading StrategiesCataldo López,Mauricio Learning Strategies reading proficiency learning styles learning strategy instruction This paper reports on a small-scale study carried out to investígate and identify the learning strategies used by a student to improve second lan-guage learning along with reading comprehension. The study comprised a learnerfromaSpanish-speakingbackground performing a reading taskand undertaking a post-taskinterview. Analysis of the performance evidenced a high level of metacognitive strategies use that correlate with the learner's languageproficiency. Resultsmay contribute to the growingeffortsmadeby EFL teachers to enhance students' language processing ski lis by embracing a teaching approach that adopts a pedagogical stance towards learning strategy instruction and meets learners' characteristics.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Católica Silva HenríquezLiteratura y lingüística n.19 20082008-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-58112008000100015en10.4067/S0716-58112008000100015
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language English
topic Learning Strategies
reading proficiency
learning styles
learning strategy instruction
spellingShingle Learning Strategies
reading proficiency
learning styles
learning strategy instruction
Cataldo López,Mauricio
Delineating Latino Student's Reading Strategies
description This paper reports on a small-scale study carried out to investígate and identify the learning strategies used by a student to improve second lan-guage learning along with reading comprehension. The study comprised a learnerfromaSpanish-speakingbackground performing a reading taskand undertaking a post-taskinterview. Analysis of the performance evidenced a high level of metacognitive strategies use that correlate with the learner's languageproficiency. Resultsmay contribute to the growingeffortsmadeby EFL teachers to enhance students' language processing ski lis by embracing a teaching approach that adopts a pedagogical stance towards learning strategy instruction and meets learners' characteristics.
author Cataldo López,Mauricio
author_facet Cataldo López,Mauricio
author_sort Cataldo López,Mauricio
title Delineating Latino Student's Reading Strategies
title_short Delineating Latino Student's Reading Strategies
title_full Delineating Latino Student's Reading Strategies
title_fullStr Delineating Latino Student's Reading Strategies
title_full_unstemmed Delineating Latino Student's Reading Strategies
title_sort delineating latino student's reading strategies
publisher Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez
publishDate 2008
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