scholarly journals Engineering Students' Language Learning Strategies (LLS) and Their Motivation in Learning Speaking Skills

Author(s):  
Katherine Livan Kehing ◽  
Mohamad Sobri Suhaili ◽  
Radmila Ronios Mara ◽  
Alexander Andrew Kana ◽  
Diana Anak Ipan ◽  
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2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-269
Author(s):  
Nurul Ain Othman ◽  
Mimi Nahariah Azwani Mohamed ◽  
Nor Fadhilah Ahmad Powzi ◽  
Suzilla Jamari

The aim of this paper is to investigate the language learning strategies employed by 22 technical university undergraduates in Malaysia, particularly in oral presentation skills. The study employed focus group interviews and the data gathered were recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically based on O'Malley and Chamot's (1990) taxonomy. The findings showed that the participants used more metacognitive and cognitive strategies compared to the social and affective strategies. The study highlights that students' preferred language learning strategies may not always be effective. Hence, educators have to identify effective language learning strategies for their students and scaffold students' learning into using appropriate strategies.


Author(s):  
Syamsudin

This study is about the use of language learning strategies by the students of the English Letters department of one of the Islamic Universities in Malang to handle language anxiety to improve their speaking skills. This study aims at discussing the result of some observations and in-depth interviews to two EFL learners using language learning strategies to handle language anxiety to improve their speaking skills. This study applies a descriptive case study involving two EFL learners as the subject of the study. From the study, it is found that EFL learners might experience language anxiety due to several factors/ conditions. It is necessary for the EFL learners to be acquainted more with the use of language learning strategies to handle language anxieties so that they might improve their speaking skills.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2445-2448
Author(s):  
Yong Hong Sun ◽  
Fei Xiao ◽  
Xiao Wei Jiang ◽  
Yan Liu

The study aims to find out similarities or differences of learning strategies used by introvert and extrovert students in the process of learning English language. The survey instrument included a questionnaire and all the participants are engineering students in Changchun University. There are altogether 32 valid questionnaires, including 15 introvert students and 17 extrovert students. The results show that both introvert students and extrovert students of engineering sometimes use the English language learning strategies at medium level. Introvert students use compensation strategies better than extrovert students. Extrovert students use memory strategies, metacognitive strategies and social strategies better than introvert students. Both introvert students and extrovert students equally employ cognitive strategies and affective strategies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
John N. Cabansag

The primary aim of this paper is to examine the speaking anxiety, affective and social language learning strategies and English language proficiency among ESL Agricultural and Biosystems and Civil Engineering students of a state university in Northern Luzon, Philippines including the possible relationship among the aforementioned variables. The research adapted six (6) items on Affective Language Learning Strategies (ALLS) and six (6) items on Social Language Learning Strategies (SLLS) by Oxford (1990); the Foreign Language Communication Anxiety Scale designed by Horwitz et al. (1986) and the English Proficiency Test developed by Commission on Higher Education were utilized in this study. The findings disclose that the speaking anxiety level of the respondents is moderate. It was noted that they are uneasy every time teachers called them to recite in English class unprepared. To add more, their ALLS and SLLS are both somewhat true for them and the repondents’ English Proficiency Level is moderate. It also showed that small negative correlation exists between their English proficiency and speaking anxiety. However, a medium and small positive correlation established when their speaking anxiety and ALLS was correlated. And a small positive correlation was obtained in the correlation between the respondents’ speaking anxiety and SLLS. The research concludes with a list of recommendations on how to lessen speaking anxiety in the English language classroom to ESL learners.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Berlinda Mandasari ◽  
Lulud Oktaviani

Learning English as a foreign language, especially in a formal context, leads the students to have their own strategy in order to achieve the objective of learning. The strategy is considered as a helpful way to learn English better. After all, every student has their own strategy in learning. Thus, this study presents an exploration of English language learning strategies used by management and engineering students of Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia (UTI). Subjects of the research were 70 students who take English for Business (EFB) subject majoring management and engineering study program. Data were collected through questionnaire and interview. Data were then analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The result of this study gained a platform of learning strategies used by students. As a result, Management and Engineering students showed almost the same strategy in learning English in a class.


2018 ◽  
Vol 09 (14) ◽  
pp. 2357-2366
Author(s):  
Nur Yasmin Khairani Zakaria ◽  
Siti Nazima Zakaria ◽  
Nora Ezzati Azmi

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