Mistaken Strategies: Used by Weak Students- A Review  

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Kopeika, Miriam

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: English Teaching Forum (http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives.html) vol. 38 no. 2 (Apr. 2000), page 1-7.
Topik: EFL; Weak Student; Game Musical Chairs; Mistaken Strategies
Fulltext: Mistaken Strategies Used by Weak Students- A Review.pdf (308.2KB)

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Weak EFL students adopt several mistaken strategies to understand text and/or to perform text-based tasks. The most frequent common denominator of these strategies is that they seem to be symptomatic of a lack of confidence, resulting from poorly developed skills. At the same time, skills that students have are often not appropriately applied because of a fear of the English text. One example of these strategies, called ?musical context,occurs when students change the context to fit what they mistakenly think the word means. Another example, ?continuation stories, is when students are attracted to one part of a sentence and read only that, thereby failing to read other important components of the sentence. This article describes a few such strategies, provides examples of each, explains the cause or causes of such mistaken approaches, and suggests some possible solutions. Teachers can better assist students if they are aware of these mistaken approaches and their causes. Only after such awareness can they help students acquire tools for improving their strategies.

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