scholarly journals The role of students’ individual differences in language learning strategy choice

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-121
Author(s):  
Iryna Kaminska
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Contexts

In the article, theoretical-and methodological approaches of modern scholars to the issue of implementing learning strategies into the process of teaching foreign languages are ascertained. The development of strategies and the strategy repertoire along with factors that influence the choice of strategies and their transfer to different learning contexts is considered. Strategy instruction and its impact on language learners are observed. The variety and diversity of factors affecting the choice and the use of learning strategies, namely, motivation, learner autonomy, self-regulation, prior learning experience and students’ beliefs, which determine individual choice of language learning strategies by students of higher education establishments are analyzed. The transfer of general learning strategies to new learning contexts, notably to learning foreign languages, and the predictive value they have in language achievement is defined. The value and importance of learning strategies and the relationship between success, achievement and performance and examined. The teaching of the wide scope of strategies to language students to help them become more efficient, effective and productive is addressed. Possible differences in learning strategy types and frequency of strategy use in low and high strategy users as well as high and low achievers of foreign language learners are identified. Research needs to be conducted to find more efficient ways of training learners to use language learning strategies effectively. The length, the amount and the type of strategy instruction that has more impact on the students’ adoption of learning of strategies should be scrutinized. The type of strategies that learners are more susceptible to accept and adopt not only in the short term but also in the long term should be analyzed. No study has been conducted in the general set of strategies which beginner learners of English transfer from their general repertoire of strategies to language learning as the primary tools to face language learning and the extent to which these strategies will help them in attaining success in language learning.

scholarly journals Empowering Language Learning Strategies Online

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Aberle-Grasse
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Language Learning Strategies

English language educators faced challenges unique to their discipline as well as difficulties shared with all teachers as they suddenly adjusted to 100% online learning environments in 2020. Language learning strategies (LLS), which are proven strategies for improving language learning as well as building self-efficacy and peer support (MacArthur et al., 2015; Rose et al., 2018), are presented here as tools to navigate this new challenge. The article opens with a brief review of several acute current needs of online learners that critical pedagogy and learning strategies may address. Next, the author provides concise definitions for language learning strategies and summarizes the historical and theoretical basis for LLS. A classroom-based case study of language learning strategy instruction (LLSI) then follows. Finally, online tools and methods for two key strategies, goal-setting and peer review, are provided with recommendations for applying these strategies in a variety of settings. Keywords: language learning strategies, critical pedagogy, self-regulation, peer review, goal-setting

scholarly journals LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGY INSTRUCTION: CURRENT ISSUES AND RESEARCH

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 112-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Uhl Chamot
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Apparent Loss ◽  
Language Learning Strategy ◽  
History Of

This chapter begins with definitions and an overview of methods used to identify learners' strategies, then summarizes what we have learned from the large number of descriptive studies of strategies reported by language learners. Research on language learning strategies has a history of only about thirty years, and much of this history has been sporadic. The 1980s and early 1990s were a period of substantial research on language learning strategies, much of it descriptive. This period was followed by an apparent loss of interest in language learning strategies, judging by limited reported research and few related conference presentations. Recently, however, a number of new investigations have reinvigorated the field. The focus of the chapter is on the evolution of research on language learning strategy intervention studies, the issues that have emerged from this research, and metacognitive models that can be useful in the language classroom. The discussion concludes by setting out directions for future research.

scholarly journals Scenario-Based Instruction Design as a Tool to Promote Self-Regulated Language Learning Strategies

SAGE Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401668417
Author(s):  
Meral Seker
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Instruction Design

The study investigated the impact of scenario-based instruction on language learners’ awareness and use of self-regulated language learning (SRL) strategies to provide an instructional design to successfully promote them. The scenario-based SRL strategy instruction design developed in the study was based on Oxford’s Strategic, Self-Regulation (S2R) Model. Following an experimental design, the data were gathered from foreign language learners ( N = 125) at a state university through three instruments: the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning, whole-class discussions, and semistructured interviews. Although the quantitative data from the inventory helped determine the level of reported strategy use by learners, the additional qualitative data were gathered to elicit learners’ reflections to determine SRL awareness during and following the training experience. Analyzing pre- and posttraining results from the control and the experimental groups indicated significant differences with an increased awareness and a higher reported use of strategies for the experimental group. The results are meant to help guide future directions in strategy instruction for foreign language learning.

scholarly journals Review of Learning strategy instruction in the language classroom: Issues and implementation; Editors: Anna Uhl Chamot, Vee Harris; Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2019; ISBN: 9781788923392; Pages: 296

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-753
Author(s):  
Olga Trendak
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Language Learning Strategy ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
New Directions

The book Learning Strategy Instruction in the Language Classroom: Issues and Implementation, edited by Anna Uhl Chamot and Vee Harris, touches upon crucial issues pertaining to language learning strategies (LLS) and language learning strategy instruction (LLSI), both from a theoretical and practical perspective. All the contributors to the volume are specialists with considerable expertise in the field of LLS and LLSI, which makes the book an informative and inspirational read. The authors look at the concept of strategy instruction from different perspectives, meticulously not only investigating various LLSI models, taking account of “learner needs and settings and particular language skills,” but also “considering curricula, materials, teachers roles, the ways in which scaffolding is enacted in the classrooms” (p. viii). Since the volume adeptly combines research into LLSI with its theoretical aspects and complexities, it will prove useful to practitioners and researchers alike. Delineating new directions in the field of LLSI, the edited collection is undoubtedly a valuable contribution to ongoing discussions about LLSI and its implementation in the classroom.

Language Learning Strategies: Is the Baby Still in the Bathwater?

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Strategy Research ◽  
Current Opinion ◽  
Language Learning Strategy ◽  
The Subject

Abstract When it was suggested that the concept of self-regulation should replace the language learning strategy concept early in the new millennium, there were fears that strategy research had come to an end. Nevertheless, research, debate, and publication on the subject have continued. Although some issues remain (especially regarding definition, underpinning theory, classification, and research methodology), current opinion tends to suggest that language learning strategies remain vibrant and compatible with self-regulation. This article discusses the controversies and concludes by arguing for the need to acknowledge diversity and to engage in productive debate.

scholarly journals Do Cultural Intelligence and Language Learning Strategies Influence Students’ English Language Proficiency?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 655
Author(s):  
Noor Rachmawaty ◽  
M. Basri Wello ◽  
Mansur Akil ◽  
Syarifuddin Dollah
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
English Language Proficiency ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Relationship Of

Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is believed as an additional type to the existing forms of intelligence (IQ, EQ). It also explains why some individuals are more effective than others in culturally diverse situations. Studies have documented how successful language learners seem to use wider variety of language learning strategies than unsuccessful learners. Having these two important aspects in relation to the successfulness of acquiring foreign language thus this study is intended to explore the relationship of Cultural Intelligence, Language Learning Strategy and English Language proficiency. The study involved 87 second-year students of English Department, Mulawarman University. Data were gathered using The Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS), The Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) and TOEFL. Descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS 20 were used in the process of data analysis. The result reveals that CQ level of the students is medium (M=51.984) with metacognitive and motivational as dominant factors for both male and female students. The data shows that there is a significant relationship between CQ and LLS (F= 13.082, p= 0.001). This result confirms the previous studies that culture influences the frequency and type of LLS use. As for strategy categories, metacognitive is the most frequently used strategy (M=3.704) and affective is the least frequently used (M=3.080). The students’ proficiency level is ranging from elementary (25.29%) to advanced (8.05%). The dominant level is low intermediate. The data recorded that there is no correlation among cultural intelligence, language learning strategies and English language proficiency (F=1.208, p= 0.304).

Effectiveness of strategy instruction for vocabulary learning: a narrative review

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Husain Abdulhay
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Strategy Training ◽  
Vocabulary Learning Strategies

Nowadays, it is strongly irrefutable that vocabulary skills founds the stepping-stone to  language learning and should be at the epicenter of language education, in re to the fact that much cannot be implied without grammar; nothing can be imparted without vocabulary. Understanding the key notions of how vocabulary is acquired can help language teachers be able to dispense more realistic and effective vocabulary teaching. With this thought in mind, it is crucial to acquaint students with vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) so that they can do this more effectively. With the expansion of research on vocabulary learning strategy instruction, the question to be posed is whether training on strategies will culminate in improvement in language learners or not. Thus, based on the significance ascribed to teaching vocabulary learning strategies in the process of language learning, the present paper seeks to cull evidences and scour the effectiveness of teaching vocabulary learning strategies.  Keywords: Vocabulary, vocabulary learning, strategy training for vocabulary learning.

scholarly journals Strategy instruction for successful language tandems

ELT Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-295
Author(s):  
Simon Webster
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
International Study ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learning Strategy ◽  
Learning Strategy Use

Abstract Educational institutions are placing increased value on language tandems owing to the language development opportunities they offer for learners of modern languages. Where these learners lack autonomous language learning strategies, however, the results can be disappointing, with limited linguistic development taking place. This paper reports on recent research into the language tandem experiences of international study abroad students during their period of study at a British university. When it became apparent that the students lacked skills in managing their language tandems to meet their learning needs, strategy instruction was introduced to facilitate more effective language learning strategy use. The findings suggest that such an intervention can significantly increase learners’ ability to create a language tandem which meets their learning needs.

scholarly journals A Critical Analysis of Teaching Language Learning Strategies to University in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
M. Ainur Rizqi ◽  
Haries Pribady
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
University Degree ◽  
Analysis Of Teaching ◽  
Oriented Research

Over the last 40 years, plenty research has extensively examined the role of learning strategies on the language acquisition/learning. In Indonesia, unfortunately, this issue seemingly receives less attention at least until 2000’s.  Perhaps, Setiyadi’s (2001; 2004) and Mistar’s (2001) work which both studied students’ learning strategies in a university degree could be declared as the first batch of strategies-oriented research, and followed by  Subekti& Lawson (2007) and Mistar&Umamah (2014). Generally, the studies were descriptive or correlational in which depicting the types of strategies that the learners employed, or sought a relationship between learning strategies and the learners’ academic achievements. Strikingly, none elucidated strategy-instruction as the key priority. In fact, this is vital to ensure whether these strategies really could help poor language learners in practice.

scholarly journals STRATEGI-STRATEGI BELAJAR BAHASA ASING

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amri Isyam
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Foreign Language Learner

This article aims at desribing foreign language learning strategies which should be possessed by each foreign language learner because their success or failure doesn’t depend only on the lecturer’s language teaching but also very much on the foreign language learning strategies. There are a lot of foreign language learning strategies; however, at least, there are fourteen foreign language learning strategies that they should possess and apply if they really want to succeed in learning a foreign language. The strategies will be enough for foreign language learners to reach their learning targets if they can possess and apply them as well as possible in learning whatever foreign language, like English for example.  In addition to the fourteen strategies, how they will find or get them will also be presented and discussed in the article. It is advisable that a foreign language teacher or lecturer save a small amount of time of his/her teaching hours to teach those strategies, and that a learner apply them as well they can or make his/her own effort to find and apply them. Key words/phrases: foreign language learner, strategy, and foreign language learning strategy

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