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Language Learning Strategies of Kurdish EFL Learners: High Achievers versus Low Achievers
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Abdullah, Kameran Noori – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
It has been long believed that students' learning techniques and strategies could distinguish between successful and unsuccessful student performance. Therefore, this study aimed to examine high- and low-achieving students' use of the most common learning strategies. For this purpose, 160 students (80 high achievers, and 80 low achievers) were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Palestinian Language Learners' Learning Strategies: A Case Study of Medical Students
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Shehadeh, Adnan; Dwaik, Raghad – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
The topic of learning strategies has often been researched in the contexts of second language acquisition and language pedagogy. New developments in these fields and change in the characteristics and needs of new learner populations in different contexts call for additional research in this area which is characterized by change and variability.…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
On the Relationship among Critical Thinking, Language Learning Strategy Use and University Achievement of Iranian English as a Foreign Language Majors
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Afshar, Hassan Soodmand; Movassagh, Hossein – Language Learning Journal, 2017
The study investigated the relationship among critical thinking, strategy use and university achievement. To this end, 76 English major students sat the California Critical Thinking Skills Test and filled out Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Language Learning. Participants' Grade Point Averages were regarded as their university achievement. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
It Works for Me: From the High Achievers' Perspective
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Yeon, Sang-Hee – Applied Language Learning, 2014
This research focuses on speaking proficiency and successful second language speakers' traits using a survey and an interview. The participants in the study were in a short intensive course between four and six months, depending on the language they studied. The successful learner was defined as someone who received 1+ or above on the Interagency…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Interviews, Language Tests
It Works for Me: From the High Achievers' Perspective
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Yeon, Sang-Hee – Applied Language Learning, 2014
This research focuses on speaking proficiency and successful second language speakers' traits using a survey and an interview. The participants in the study were in a short intensive course between four and six months, depending on the language they studied. The successful learner was defined as someone who received 1+ or above on the Interagency…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interviews