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Learning Strategies

Learning is such an individual experience! We all have our own way to learn, and the orientations, approaches and strategies we use for learning have been acquired during childhood and educational experiences, thus becoming quite stable by constant reinforcement and tending to last throughout our lives. However, it is possible to help students to become better learners by teaching learning strategies and metacognitive skills as byproducts of the subject matter.We live in a world where life-long learning is a must. It does’t have to be formal, academic learning, but being able to adapt to the new technology and the rapid changes in our lives. Where ever I teach, I always want to support my students’ self-regulated learning by engaging in process-oriented instruction and learning facilitation (as seen in Simons,1997).Sometimes people confuse learning strategies with instructional strategies, but these are two distinctively different concepts. Instructional strategies are used by the teacher, learning strategies are in each students’ own repertoire. Sometimes also learning styles are confused with learning strategies. Distance Learning Association has a good online presentation about learning styles and strategies.Vermunt and Vermetten (2004) concluded that students’ learning strategy patterns generally belong to one of the following dimensions: undirected, reproduction-directed, meaning-directed, or application-directed. TheKalaca & Gulpinar (2011) table below displays the learning components attached to each learning strategy (called learning style in the table).

Modal Verbs¶

“Tenses” of modal verbs — [1]¶

Depending on the context, tenses of modal verbs can be expressed as follows (see source link for more details):

Can¶

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  ability: I can ride a horse.
  
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  opportunity: We can stay with my brother when we are in Paris.
  
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