What exactly are strategies? According to Rebecca Oxford, learning strategies are "operations employed by the learner to aid the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information, specific actions taken by the learner to make learning easier, faster, more enjoyable, more self-directed, more effective and more transferable to new situations" (Carter and Nunan, page 166).
Interchange Third Edition incorporates various teaching and learning strategies throughout the course, though they may not always be specifically labeled as strategies. In the Student's Book, for example, learners are provided with Classroom Language, which they can use to help themselves cope in the classroom. The readings have many exercises that introduce various learning strategies, such as those which require learners to guess the meaning of unknown words from context or to infer meaning. In addition, the Teacher's Edition encourages teachers to train their students to use these strategies to become more successful learners.
In "Types of Learning Strategies and Their Background," Rebecca Oxford lists different types of strategies and provides examples. This article appears on pages 167 to 169 of The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, edited by Ronald Carter and David Nunan, published by Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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