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Download full textSaeb, Fateme; Zamani, Elham – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper reports a comparative study exploring language learning strategy use and beliefs about language learning of high-school students and students attending English institutes. Oxford's (1990) strategy inventory for language learning (SILL) and Horwitz's (1987) beliefs about language learning inventory (BALLI), were used to collect data.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Gharbavi, Abdullah; Mousavi, Seyyed Ahmad – English Language Teaching, 2012
The primary focus of research on employment of language learning strategies has been on identification of adoption of different learning strategies. However, the relationship between language learning strategies and proficiency levels was ignored in previous research. The present study was undertaken to find out whether there are any relationship…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Learning Strategies, Language Tests, Correlation
Park, Gi-Pyo – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study examined the validity of the SILL by performing a confirmatory factor analysis among 914 university students learning English in Korea. The results showed that all the fit indices including chi-square, RMSEA, CFI, and NFI used to test Oxford's two construct and six construct taxonomy of the SILL provided unacceptable fit to the data.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Measures (Individuals), Learning Strategies
Fazeli, Seyed Hossein – Online Submission, 2011
The present study aims to find out the relationship between the Conscientiousness trait and English Language Learning Strategies (ELLSs) for learners of English as a foreign language. Four instruments were used, which were Persian adapted Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL), A Background Questionnaire, NEO-Five Factors Inventory…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zhou, Yaping – English Language Teaching, 2010
Language learning strategies are important factors that affect students' learning. In China, senior high school is an important stage in a person's education. This study examines the English language learning strategy use by Chinese senior high school students by means of the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning. The findings reveal that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Learning Strategies, Measures (Individuals)
Jannejad, Mohsen; Shokouhi, Hossein; Haghighi, Somayeh Biparva – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study seeks to determine the possible interactions between listening proficiency and the state of strategic self-awareness; second, and more importantly, to investigate the effects of learned strategies on listening comprehension and recall; and finally to describe the most common real-time listening comprehension problems faced by EFL…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Metacognition
Anthony, Margreat Aloysious; Ganesen, Sree Nithya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
According to Horwitz (1987) learners' belief about language learning are influenced by previous language learning experiences as well as cultural background. This study examined the English Language Learning Strategies between local and international Chinese students who share the same cultural background but have been exposed to different…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Students, Learning Experience, Foreign Countries
Jiang, Xiaoli; Cohen, Andrew D. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
This article critically reviews strategy research on learning Chinese both as a second and foreign language. Through a careful examination of major data bases in both the Chinese and English languages, the article summarizes research in the field and the principal research methods used in the studies reviewed. Moreover, key limitations in research…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Chinese, Second Language Learning, English
Khatib, Mohammad; Hassanzadeh, Mohammad; Rezaei, Saeed – International Education Studies, 2011
This study examines the preferred vocabulary learning strategies of Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners. In order to identify the aforementioned group in terms of language proficiency, a TOEFL test was administered to a population of 146 undergraduate EFL students at the university of Vali-e-Asr in Rafsanjan, Iran. Those scoring above 480 were…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Nemati, Majid; Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali Salmani; Ashrafzadeh, Anis – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2010
The current study aimed to diagnose the probable significant differences in the use of language learning strategies among medical-text readers of opposite sex from different levels of proficiency. 120 (N = 120) participants were randomly selected from Azad Medical University of Mashhad: 60 medical students (age range 23-25; 30 = male and 30 =…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Medical Students, Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension
Writing Strategies of Tunisian First Year University Students Learning English as a Foreign Language
Ferjani, Kaouther – Online Submission, 2010
Managing to communicate one's thoughts and ideas coherently and fluently remains a challenging task for native and non-native student writers alike. This challenge corresponds to the very nature of the writing act, which calls upon multiple and sophisticated cognitive operations. The major aim of this study was to investigate the writing…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Teaching Methods, Questionnaires, English (Second Language)
Pineda, Jorge E. – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2010
This is a small scale, inductive, ethnographic study whose objective is to explore the language learning strategies used by the students of different languages at a language program at the university level. Students of English, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and German participate in the study. Three instruments are used…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, French, Portuguese
Li, Yucheng; Liu, Yan – English Language Teaching, 2008
This paper aims at providing some information concerning the impact of strategies-based instruction on listening comprehension. First the author briefly reviews some literature relating to this issue, and then focuses on a study conducted in English major at Jiangsu University of Science & Technology. This study is set out to examine the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
Direct linkNakatani, Yasuo – Modern Language Journal, 2006
This study focuses on how valid information about learner perception of strategy use during communicative tasks can be gathered systematically from English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. First, the study attempted to develop a questionnaire for statistical analysis, named the Oral Communication Strategy Inventory (OCSI). The research…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Factor Analysis, Communication Strategies, English (Second Language)
Salies, Tania Gastao – Online Submission, 1995
EFL learners from three language institutes in Brazil answered the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning--SILL--to self-report how they go about learning English. They emerged as balanced users of various strategies with a tendency to use metacognitive and social strategies to learn the language. This tendency, further reinforced by factor…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
