By focusing on teaching strategies, skills and subskills, we can help our students learn with more confidence and competence. Imagine a reading lesson to help students understand the test. To truly develop these skills and subskills in our students, we need to teach them specific strategies to help them develop. Thus, successful completion of a lesson involves achieving the goal of developing competencies, rather than providing students with accessible strategies they can use outside the classroom. He is now interested in using the urban language landscape as a tool to support language learning and skills acquisition through learning materials. For more information on this topic and examples of how the script develops other skills, visit my webinar on Thursday, 26 September This leads to a focused and controlled practice of strategy development before returning to the text to answer more detailed and understandable questions.