⑸self-assessing one’s own strategy use: Self-assessment helps students reflect through the cycle of learning. Teachers may ask such questions as “ What am I trying to accomplish?” “How well am I using them?” . Through this skill, students can learn to assess their performance more accurately.
The five aspects are valuable suggestions for teachers to instruct the metacognitive strategies. To have good metacognitive awareness can greatly facilitate the improvement of strategy use and empower second language learners.
5.Conclusion
It must be re-emphasized in conclusion that the issue of strategy training in L2 acquisition is far from simple, and there are no simple solutions to the questions of how to promote efficient employment of strategies. The aim of strategy training in L2 learning lies not in the mastery of strategies but in heightening strategy awareness, in enlarging the range of strategies to be selected, and in enhancing the ability to self-monitor and self-regulate in the learning process. Most of important, metacognitive strategies—the core learning strategies, should be paid much more attention to in language instruction.
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