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Fazeli, Seyed Hossein – Online Submission, 2012
The current study aims to explore the prediction use of English language learning strategies based on personality traits among female university level learners of English language as a university major subject at Islamic Azad University in Iran. Four instruments were used, which were the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) of Rebecca…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Personality Traits, Learning Strategies, Prediction
Fazeli, Seyed Hossein – Online Submission, 2012
The present study aims to find out the influence of personality traits on the choice and use of Memory English Language Learning Strategies (MELLSs) for learners of English as a foreign language, and the role of personality traits in the prediction of use of such Strategies. Four instruments were used, which were Adapted Inventory for Memory…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learning Strategies, Personality, Memory
Fazeli, Seyed Hossein – Online Submission, 2012
The current study aims to explore the overall relationships between use of English language learning strategies and personality traits of the female university level learners of English language as a university major. Four instruments were used, which were Adapted Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) of Rebecca L. Oxfords, A Background…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learning Strategies, Personality, Foreign Countries
Fazeli, Seyed Hossein – Online Submission, 2011
Since Language Learning Strategies (LLSs) have the potential to be "an extremely powerful learning tool" (O'Malley, Chamot, Stewner-Manzanares, Russo & Kupper, 1985a, p.43), the use of LLSs helps the learners retrieve and store material, and facilitate their learning (Grander & Maclntyre, 1992), they are sensitive to the learning context and to…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Second Languages, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
Fazeli, Seyed Hossein – Online Submission, 2012
The present study aims to find out the role of personality traits in the prediction choice and use of the Compensatory English Language Learning Strategies (CELLSs) for learners of English as a foreign language. Four instruments were used, which were Adapted Inventory for Compensatory English Language Learning Strategies based on Compensation…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learning Strategies, Personality, Foreign Countries
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Dörnyei, Zoltán – AILA Review, 2006
Ever since the early days of its existence, the field of psychology has been trying to achieve two different and somewhat contradictory objectives: to understand the "general principles" of the human mind and to explore the "uniqueness" of the individual mind. The latter direction has formed an independent subdiscipline within…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Individual Differences, Personality, Aptitude
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Hwu, Fenfang – ReCALL, 2007
This case study investigated the ways pre-major and pre-minor students of Spanish interacted with a grammar application from four perspectives. Firstly, using the computer's tracking ability to collect learners' behaviors, the study set out to uncover the different ways learners approached the application. Secondly, the study assessed the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Personality, Language Aptitude
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Oxford, Rebecca L.; Ehrman, Madeline E. – System, 1995
This study examined the relationship between language learning strategies and factors such as proficiency, teacher perceptions, gender, aptitude, learning style, personality, and motivation among 520 adults studying various languages at the Foreign Service Institute. It found a low but significant relationship between cognitive strategy use and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Age Differences, Anxiety