ABSTRACT
This chapter reports part of a study of strategies used by students in completing language learning tasks in an EAP Study Skills course. The aspect covered here aimed at helping students to identify the strategies they used in performing the tasks and helping them to discuss their procedures and those of their colleagues. The chapter is aimed at investigating the study-summary as an evaluation instrument in EAP reading comprehension with Brazilian postgraduate students of psychology. It concerns describing how our framework for talking about learning was arranged. This took the form of a checklist based on classroom observation and was subsequently refined with student feedback. During the course, students' strategies change, not simply as a result of trial and error or intuition, but as a consequence of reflection on learning processes and deliberate attempts to change them. In the area of Language Awareness it is difficult to make comparisons or gather data in a quantitative way.
