Learning and Language Skills

At the La Salle Learning Centre, students learn how to learn. Irregardless of their specific learning styles, the programme helps develop key learning and language skills through a series of Tables.

Table 1: Thinking-Talking

a. Talking about pictures of objects, faces, animals that are familiar
b. Asking questions and answering questions about various stimulus materials
c. Talking/thinking about composite pictures
d. Talking about various intelligence tests/puzzles
e. Carry on conversation about more difficult topics

Table 2: Reading-Listening

From ‘listening attentively’ to graded taped materials while following the accompanying text;

To ‘listening attentively ‘in order to understand and learn various language material

Table 3: Reading-Remembering, Listening-Remembering

Concentration Exercises
Exercises in ‘getting the essentials’
Exercises on ‘writing out what they remember’
Mind-mapping
Making summaries of what they have listened to in table 2

Table4: Reading-Writing-Spelling

Series of ‘frame’ exercises whereby students read, write and check spelling of specific words

Table 5: Reading-Understanding

a. Exercise for recognition of letters, and regular repetition of whole words (Doman)
b. Listen to and repeat whole words and phrases
c. Move into suku-kata work and simple reading using basic suku-kata
d. Watch pronunciation, smoothness, intonation
e. Reading for information through questions
f. Reading stories for understanding, with questions

Table 6: Writing-Expressing

a. Writing out letters and words
b. Writing words and phrases, writing out their experiences in ‘diary’ form
c. Various specific writing skills
d. Further skills and practice

Table 7: Understanding and Explaining

a. Understanding words, looking for meanings and making sentences with the words
b. Understanding instructions and words/phrases/sentences
c. Practice of Comprehension skills; simple to more difficult

Table 8: Counting and Calculating

a. introductory directed activities (with tutor)
b. Doing maths and talking about what they have done
c. Preparatory exercises: Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra, Problem-Solving
d. Actual teaching, if necessary; or group work
e. Basic drills in maths
f. Doing exercises in maths

Table 9: Drawing-Expressing

Personalised programmes based on what they have decided to do or group lessons on specific topics; or project work (to be completed over a period of time)

Table 10: Drawing-Observing-Recording

a. Making simple things from assorted materials and speaking about it at the conversation table
b. Reading instructions carefully and looking for answers through simple experiments and writing down the answers
c. Doing experiments to observe and record and ask questions at Conversation table
d. Self-done experiments, observation, and recording of conclusions

Table 11: Self-analysis and self-assessment

With tutor, help the pupil review his goal, strategy and results so far and help him to make changes if necessary.

 

Table 12: The Doing Room

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