Experiential learning of french language and the strategies used during learning

Essay by sanatariqUniversity, Master'sB, June 2005

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INTRODUCTION

This assignment is a case study of my French learning experience. .I experienced the learning of French language for three days. I analyzed my experience of learning French. I looked upon the learning styles of various learners as well as the teaching styles adapted by the French teacher to teach French. I used various language learning strategies for learning. Some were effective and some were not. Then there are some implications for instruction with a conclusion.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1 Experiential learning....................................................................1

2 Language learning strategies........................................................2

2.1 Definition of a language learning strategy..................................2

2.2 Types of language learning strategies......................................3

3 Analysis of Foreign language learning experience..............................5

3.1 French learning experience......................................................7

3.1.1 First class (Monday 14th march, 2005)...............................8

3.1.2 Second class (Tuesday 15th march, 2005)..........................9

3.1.3 Third class (Wednesday 16th march, 2005).....................10

3.2 Difficulties that I faced while learning French.................................11

3.3 Strategies that I used for French language learning.......................12

3.3.1 Cognitive strategies......................................................12

3.3.2 Socio-affective strategies...............................................12

3.3.3 Meta cognitive strategies...............................................13

3.4 Effective and ineffective strategies used....................................14

3.5 Learners' approach to learning.................................................16

3.6 Teacher's approach to teaching................................................16

4 Pedagogical implications.............................................................17

Conclusion

Bibliography

1 EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

" Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what

a man does with what happens to him."

Aldous Huxley

All learning is a subset of experiential learning. This confuses matters significantly! Experiential learning also has a more particular meaning: "learning-by-doing"

The learning in an experiential learning process is evoked by the learner's experience of the process. Here's how David A. Kolb, the most prominent and important theorist in the field, differentiates experiential learning-

"Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through

the transformation of experience. This definition emphasizes several

critical aspects of the learning process as viewed from the experiential .

perspective; First is the emphasis on the process of adaptation and...