98. Strategies, strategies, strategies

The trainer told the novice teacher that any person who is learning a language, who really wishes, he or she uses strategies, ways to learn the language, ways, techniques this person has learned in a book, or by his friends, or ones he has learned precisely by learning.

Namely: planning the everyday study, the how to retrieve words, the how to hold a conversation, to learn new words, a new one, the how to practice a new word by thinking or writing one sentence, or by using it in an email,

or the how this person has taken in, not just input, a new word, because that word has appeared several times throughout the novel,

the how the mental effort to improve memory,

the how this person ponders about other hows,

the how he realizes he is using certain hows...
Very helpful for the teacher, as well as for the learner: remember the reference I gave you about the book by Rebecca Oxford, some entries... "down".

-Just one more thing: man is a social being, so he learns with his peers

(Below, on another post, I wrote that, as you well know, when I say "man" etc.).

On the picture you can make out two astronauts laboring out of the ISS. Thanks to yaaqui com for the pic. You can also see the land of the earth somewhat close, for the ISS is only some 200 miles (I might be quite wrong - just it rings a bell to me, in km, more or less 300).