Cognitive Strategies on Language Learning

Abstract

Learning the first language outside of school generally goes smoothly, children's language skills develop well but learning the first language in class, the child's language skills develop slowly. The same thing happens in learning a language and a second language. Learning a second language outside of school (the child is transferred to the culture and second language being studied, the child can master the new language within six months. Meanwhile, learning the language in the classroom (not in the culture and second language studied), for six years has not yielded satisfactory results. This study was designed in carried out using the deconstruction method. In this study, the deconstruction method was used to reveal implicit meaning. Some previous studies about learning acquisition strategies had been reviewed. The results of the study show that cognitive strategy is a suitable strategy for the children to be used in acquiring language. Children are guided to follow some activities, namely clarifying and verifying, guessing or doing inductive exploring, reasoning deductively, practicing, memorizing to remember, and monitoring.