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Hosenfeld, Carol – Foreign Language Annals, 1976
A self-observation and self-report procedure is proposed that will assist teachers in discovering their students' learning strategies and may generate knowledge about the second language learning process. Transcriptions of segments of interviews with four students illustrate the procedure involved in eliciting student strategies. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Junior High School Students, Language Instruction
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Rubin, Joan – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
Examines the learning strategies successful language learners employ and suggests that teachers can help their less successful students by paying more attention to learner strategies already seen as productive. (PMP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Language Ability, Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Bialystok, Ellen; Froehlich, Maria – TESL Talk, 1978
A study was conducted to measure the extent to which three learning strategies--practicing, monitoring and inferencing--affected student performance in three grade 10 (ages 14-15) and three grade 12 (ages 16-17) classes of French as a second language. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Achievement, Affective Behavior, Cognitive Ability, French
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Bialystok, Ellen; Frohlich, Maria – Modern Language Journal, 1978
Examines the effects of aptitude, field independence, attitude, and strategy use upon four areas of language achievement: formal/oral, formal/written, functional/oral, and functional/written. Test results indicated that aptitude and field independence are related, as are strategy use and attitude; only aptitude and strategy use, however, affect…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Style, Language Ability
LoCoco, Veronica G.-M. – 1976
The errors of 187 bilingual students, aged 10 years, 11 months to 19 years, 8 months were analyzed as they studied English as a third language. Errors were categorized with two major learning strategies in mind: transfer and overgeneralization. Types of errors were related to degree of bilingualism, English proficiency level and age of the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Hosenfeld, Carol – 1975
The many dimensions of individual differences that make each learner a challenge to the foreign language teacher are discussed. The teacher must interpret the information and provide differentiated environments to "match" these differences. Emphasis is placed upon learning styles and learning strategies. An historical perspective of adapting…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Naiman, N.; And Others – 1978
This study is intended to help experienced practitioners and student teachers gain a systematic understanding of language learning. Part I is a general introduction discussing the second language learner and first language learner. Part II describes the adult interview study; the method, procedure, and results of interviews with good and poor…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cognitive Style, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Research
Valdman, Albert – 1975
Errors in second language learning are viewed as evidence of the learner's hypotheses and strategies about the new data. Error observation and analysis are important to the formulation of theories about language learning and the preparation of teaching materials. Learning a second language proceeds by a series of approximative reorganizations…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education