How to Be a Successful Learner.

We all know that some students are better at learning a foreign language than others. Why is this so? And what is it that makes a good language learner? The writer H. H. Stern has (1)……… four basic factors.

The first of these is the (2)……… to develop an active learning strategy. In other words, good language learners have the ability to select goals and sub-goals, and recognise the stages and (3)……… of their learning.

Secondly, they are able to see the language as a formal (4)…………. with its own rules and relationships between forms and meanings. Furthermore, they analyse the language and develop (5)………… of practice and memorisation. They can check their own performance, and revise it in order to progress.

The third way is to develop a social (6)………..… for learning. This means that good learners understand that, in the early stages, they will be vulnerable and dependent, and can (7)………..… this. However, they also seek contact with native- speakers of the language. They work out ways of (8)……..…….. with difficulties in the language. And finally, they become actively (9)………….... as participants in authentic language use.

The final area is psychological or emotional. All language learners will have emotional and motivational (10)……………… while they are learning. In spite of this, a good learner will cope (11)……………. and will cultivate positive attitudes towards themselves, towards language learning (12)………..…. and the target language, society and culture.

1) A identified B noticed C surveyed D researched

2) A aptitude B capacity C ability D dexterity

3) A consequences B sequences C complications D challenges

4) A unity B segment C complex D system

5) A approaches B techniques C methods D skills

6) A strategy B tactic C process D rhythm

7) A appreciate B perceive C deny D accept

8) A ignoring B dealing C meeting D performing

9) A involved B involving C accepted D concerned

10)A features B guidelines C anxieties D problems

11)A effectively B efficiently C discriminately D specifically

12)A in fact B in detail C in general D in part

2. ERROR CORRECTION

This time work as a teacher.

In most lines of the following text there is one spelling or punctuation mistake. Find the mistakes and correct them. Write the correct word in the space provided. If a line contains no mistakes, put No in the space next to it. There are three examples (0).

How intelligent are we, compared with animals. “If you 0 animals?

define intelligence as the abillity to cope with 0 ability

everything your environment throws at you, then all 0 No

surviving species are intelligent, says Ken Dickenson, 1…………..

head off nevrobiology at the Babington Institute in 2…………..

cambridge. “If you take members of any animal species 3…………..

and ask them, to solve complex problems, a 4…………..

lot of them will eventually do it; and if you make an 5…………..

animal spend it’s life solving problems, it will show 6…………..

much more intelligence,” he adds. This implies that 7…………..

animals can be educated like people to use there 8…………..

native wits more effectively. What seems to 9…………..

differentiate humans is not our mental skills so much 10…………

as our capability for abstract thought: the ability to 11…………

conjure up ideas and images as well as receive them. 12…………

Animals can do things like navigateing or remembering 13…………

the locations of objects much better than we can. What 14…………

they cant do well is apply internal reasoning to a 15…………

hole range of problems, which is one of the things that’s 16…………

made us so successful as a species.

3. WORD FORMATION.

Fill the gaps with words formed from the words given after the text.