Title: The Role of the Reflection Journal in Making Efficient the Learning Activity within Formal Frames.
Abstract:One of the most efficient ways in helping the students improve their academic outcomes is by giving them the time and the instruments they need to develop their metacognitive skills when learning. Jou...One of the most efficient ways in helping the students improve their academic outcomes is by giving them the time and the instruments they need to develop their metacognitive skills when learning. Journals can help the students identify the strategies they used or the way they may use it and subsequently appraise their efficiency. Building-up a frame via hints and orientation questions, such as What could you do next? or How do the strategies you have chosen work?, may offer the students the structure determining them to think in a metacognitive manner. Many students, especially those with learning difficulties, may beneficiate from an explicit and repetitive training, concerning the metacognitive strategies. The metacognitive skills of the students form and develop in an environment where the real thinking processes represent an important part of the training and of the current conversation in a classroom. In order to create this environment, teachers and students must develop a thinking language they all consistently use. When teachers frequently use notions like strategy, process and metacognition, they communicate the importance of these notions to the students and highlight the important processes for the efficient learning. A special role in knowledge acquirement is played by the language. Whilst the speech is a system of linguistic tools (phonetic, lexical, grammatical) specific to a certain community, the language is an individual manifestation of the speech, the effective application and use of the speech by an individual. The language represents a superior conduct organizing and directing all the other components of the human mental system. This is why the communication deployed within formal frames represents a definitive factor for the quality and efficiency of learning. Reflection on communication may determine the identification of those aspects that make learning defective or beneficial, thus being a significant reference point for both teacher and student. 2. Metacognition and its role in ensuring the academic successRead More
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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