The purpose of this paper is to gain insights into the strategies employed by beginning learners of Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese as Foreign Languages at university level in order to comprehend texts in their target languages. It also investigates possible relationships between strategic behaviour and success in reading comprehension…

This study investigated to what extent the frequency and the choice of strategy use differs across the varying levels of learners of Japanese. Research on strategy use in different levels of learners argues that advanced learners use strategies more often and more effectively, and learners employ different strategies in different learning stages.…

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…