From now on... 

Based on my intermediate students' list of strategies and my Summer Course students' answers, I created a list of strategies for advanced students who are about to finish their course. Before having their students look at the list, though, I believe EFL teachers should try and raise their students' awareness of the importance of looking for ways to continue practicing English after finishing the course. Students should also brainstorm strategies before looking at the list for two reaons. First, they may come up with strategies that are not on the list, allowing me to update it. Secondly, reflecting about about strategies and recognizing their importance makes the list more meaningful and more likely to provide students with concrete actions.

My plans now are:

• read more about Language Learning Strategies and EFL teaching in order to increment this project

• spread this project through the net (you can help me by advertising this wiki) in order to get more feedback and collaborators

• spread this project through EFL workshops and seminars in order to have more EFL teachers worried about the future of their advanced students after they finish their English courses and, as a consequence, add more voices to this project

• publish one article in English and one in Portuguese about this project (as soon as they are published, I'll add the links to this wiki)

Insights, ideas, or other things that have come up in the first semester of 2008 that can generate more action:

• I wasn't going to talk much about learning strategies with my Pre-Michigan students, but on the first day of class, while I was asking why take the Michigan exam, they started to spontaneously say things about the necessity of ongoing practice in order not to forget a language, so I'll definitely get them involved.
• The director of Casa Thomas Jefferson sent me a link to a New York Times' article entitled "Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home", which talks about podcasting as an option. I have never talked about listening to language learning podcasts to my students, but this is indeed a very powerful resource!

 All kinds of feedback, criticisms, advice and suggestions are more than welcome. Feel free to contact me.