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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
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Sepasdar, Mansoreh; Soori, Afshin – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2014
Since age plays an important role in learning a second or foreign language, the present study investigated how different students in different age groups used language learning strategies. The participants of this study were 94 Iranian EFL students from four educational levels and different age groups as, primary (10-12), guidance (13-15), high…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Age Differences, Cohort Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Saeb, 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
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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