Language Learning Strategies
 

 Productive strategies refer to speaking and writing activities. To communicate effectively, the speaker or writer expresses his ideas in a text. This process can be interactive or not. Strategies are tools the speaker or writer uses to retrieve and exploit his linguistic resources to carry out a communicative task.

Retrieval strategies are searching techniques the learner can activate. Mnemonic strategies help the learner retrieve information, e.g. retrieval by means of sounds, mental pictures, body movement, or location. The language use strategy a learner activates is suitable for a particular situation if it meets the communicative demands (discourse competence).

Research findings on learning strategies differentiate between the following types:
 

• metacognitive strategies, such as planning, monitoring, and evaluating the language learning activities;
• cognitive strategies involve working out rules, considering previous knowledge, learning in a rote manner;
• social and affective strategies, such as cooperation with other students, asking for information, self-evaluation progress, self-rewarding for good performance, self-talk.

Language learning strategies make learning quicker, more effective, and more rewarding.

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