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O’ Malley’s classification of Language Learning strategies

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O’ Malley proposed a three-part strategy taxonomy:

Meta-cognitive strategies are strategies which involve “knowing about learning, and controlling learning through planning, monitoring and evaluating the learning activity”(O’Malley 1988:422). Among the main meta-cognitive strategies, it is possible to include advance organizers, directed attention, selective attention, self-management, functional planning, self-monitoring, delayed production, self-evaluation.

Cognitive strategies are more limited to specific learning tasks and involve the manipulation or transformation of the material to be learned. Repetition, resourcing, translation, grouping, note taking, deduction, recombination, imagery, auditory representation, key word, contextualization, elaboration, transfer, inferencing are among the most important cognitive strategies.

Socio-affective strategies , it can be stated that they are related with social-mediating activity and transacting with others. Cooperation and question for clarification are the main socio-affective strategies (Brown 1987:93-94).


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