Strategies/Stratejiler
1. Chunking
Chunking is taking the smallest meaningful pieces of a sentence and seperating them, figuring out what they mean, and then putting the chunks together to discover the meaning of the sentence.
2. Google!
This technique is for while you are learning new grammar. Let’s say you learned a new grammar construction in class and need to practice it. Type the construction into Google’s search bar and it will come up with the most frequently used examples of that construction.
3. Breaking Up Sentences
With this strategy you take a long sentence and break it up into three or four small sentences and figure out from there what they mean.
4. Context Clues
This is a strategy used we use while speaking English too. If there is a word in a sentence you do not know, look at the words around it and try to guess the meaning from their meaning.
5. Dictionary
Make a ‘dictionary’ for news articles or papers you write, so when you go back and read it, you will have the words ready instead of having to look them up.
6. Googling Pictures
For learning vocabulary, search the vocab word you are learning on Google images and then you have an image associated with the word.
7. Substitution
For this strategy, you take a sentence that has a new grammar construction in it and substitute the words in the sentence with words you know.
8. Funny Story
If there is a news article or a story you read in class, make a funny story out of it by using the same characters and events.
9. Role Play
In class once we were talking about what was happening in Ukrain at the time and my teacher and I did a role play where my teacher was Vladmir Putin, President of Russia, and I was David Cameron, the British Prime Minister.
10. Scanning
Scan online newspapers and media outlets for the titles of articles and see if you can tell what they are about just from reading the title.
11. Questions
Write questions about the topic or reading you are trying to understand. If you can ask questions, then you have to understand it to a certain degree. Then try to answer the questions.
12. Grammar Charts
Make charts of different grammar constructions and fill them in with examples, example sentences, and definitions.