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Hello everyone! I want to share some strategies I use when learn English especially speaking. There are more strategies in another English skills like in Listening, Reading and Writing. For now let me write about speaking first. I wish you like it, enjoy ….

In speaking

Cognitive strategies

1.    I  use rhymes to remember new English words

2.    I try to remember new English words by pronouncing them

3.    I speak a word or sentence several times to remember it

4.    I try to learn a new pattern by making a sentence orally

5.    I try to translate my language sentences into English sentences and produce them orally

6.    I try to remember what the English word equivalent to my language word is

7.    I tape record the sentences I produce

8.    I mix my language words and English words if I do not know the English words

9.    I put words into rules that I know in speaking

10. Before I respond orally to questions, I write out the answer

Metacognitive strategies

11. I try to correct my mistakes that I produce orally

12. I try to speak with my self to improve my speaking

13. I try to evaluate my utterance after speaking

14. I notice my English mistakes and use that information to help me do better

15. I prepare a topic or grammatical rules in speaking practice

Social strategies

16. I ask somebody to correct me when I talk

17. I practice speaking with my friends or my teachers

18. I practice English with native speaker

19. I ask questions in English

20. If I cannot think during a conversation in English, I use gestures

if you have another strategy in speaking, please specify

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