What Can We Learn from the Good Language Learner?

Stern, H. H.

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“…One major finding among them is that successful language learners in general use more and better learning strategies than do poorer learners. This result has appeared consistently in L2 learning strategy studies (Stern 1975;Rubin 1975;Hosenfeld 1977;Naiman et al, 1978). These early researchers tended to make lists of strategies presumed to be essential for all good language learners.…”

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“…Particularly, cognitive psychology developments influenced the research done on language learning strategies to a large extent. From early examples of research such as the studies carried out by Rubin (1975) and Stern (1975), to taxonomies of strategies which were drawn up by Oxford (1990b), to theories of language acquisition which include strategies (O'Malley & Chamot, 1990), a great deal of work has been done in attempting to identify what might be good language learning strategies, and in trying to establish a relationship between these and successful language learning.…”

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The Relationship between Iranian English Language Learners’ Learning Styles and Strategies

Baghban¹

2012

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Abstract-The present study aimed at finding the degree of relationship between Iranian learners' learning styles and their preferences in using specific language learning strategies. The study was conducted on female EFL learners at the Iran Language Institute (ILI) in advanced levels and also university students of English teaching at Azad University of Mashhad. By employing such instrumentation as the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) and also Language Learning Style (LLS) questionnaire the investigator found a significant relationship between learning styles and learning strategies used by the learners. Based on the results it can be concluded that learners scoring higher on the SILL performed better on the LLS, leading to the conclusion that SILL has a significant impact on LLS. Based on the factor analysis it was found out that cognitive, metacognitive, and most of all affective strategies showed a great correlation with the auditory style of learning. Also, metacognitive and most of all memory and social strategies showed a great correlation with the kinesthetic style.

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The Relationship between Iranian English Language Learners’ Learning Styles and Strategies

Baghban¹

2012

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“…Es a partir de los años 70 cuando se ha prestado mayor atención al papel que juegan en el aprendizaje de la lengua extranjera y en la adquisición de la segunda lengua (Naiman, Fröhlich, & Todesco, 1978/96;Rubin, 1975;Stern, 1975).…”

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Análisis de la utilización de estrategias en el aprendizaje de la lengua extranjera

Herrero

2012

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RESUMEN El presente artículo pretende analizar el uso de las estrategias de aprendizaje de la len- ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING ABSTRACTThis paper aims to analyze the use of language learning strategies in foreign language learning by graduate students. Two main objectives of this study are: 1) to analyze the use of the categories of language learning strategies in studying a foreign language, and 2) to determine the use of specific strategies which make up category.

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“…In addition, they tried to find out the strategies, which the good language learners use, and suggested teachers to help the less successful language learners improve their learning [3], [4]. It is also important for teachers to be aware of the characteristics of the good language learner, their aptitude, and motivation [5], [6]. As Rubin [5] says:…”

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“…The article first summarizes the 10 learning strategies of a good language learner [6], and they become the main research data of this paper. Then 10 professional English teachers are invited to evaluate the importance of the learning strategies.…”

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Using GRA and GSM Methods to Identify the Learning Strategies of Good Language Learners

Wang¹

2013

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Abstract-While learning a language, there are some learners who can learn it quickly, but come learners can't. If we know more about the learning strategies of the successful language learners, we could use this information to enhance the poor language learner's learning. The paper proposes to use the soft-computing methods: grey relational analysis (GRA) and grey structural modeling (GSM) to explore the learning strategy path of the good language learner. The purpose is to find the importance order of the learning strategies. Then both learners and teachers can adjust their learning and teaching styles in language acquisition. In order to quantify the data, 10 professional English teachers are interviewed, and their attitudes towards the learning strategies are calculated through the soft-computing methods. The results show that the planning strategy is the basic strategy of being a good language learner while communication strategy ranks the top. Overall, the results not only provide objective perceptions of good language learner's learning strategy path, but the proposed soft-computing methods can be applied to the future decision-making fields.Index Terms-GRA, GSM, good language learner, language acquisition.

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What Can We Learn from the Good Language Learner?

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The Relationship between Iranian English Language Learners’ Learning Styles and Strategies

The Relationship between Iranian English Language Learners’ Learning Styles and Strategies

Análisis de la utilización de estrategias en el aprendizaje de la lengua extranjera

Using GRA and GSM Methods to Identify the Learning Strategies of Good Language Learners

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