The Relationship Between Characteristics Of Good Language Learners And The Especial Employed Learning Strategies During Educational Context"
Most of the early studies in the field of language learning strategies focused on identifying the characteristics of good language learners. Identifying and discussing the strategies used by good language learners were considered as a good way to make the learners aware of the notion of language learning strategies. The present study was an attempt to collect and classify the characteristics of representative good language learners, developing English as a foreign /second language in Iran; specifically those who had achieved high scores in the IELTS General Module. And also this study aimed at identifying the characteristics associated with a good language learner in one area: learning strategies. Thirty-four Iranian IELTS candidates receiving 6+ band score were selected to participate in this study. They were interviewed and asked to write down their own reports of the experiences they had in developing their second language. They were asked to report their preferred strategies while studying English as well. They were also requested to fill out the learning strategy and learning style questionnaires. The results of interviews and open ended questions were specifically organized and classified via employing both descriptive and explanatory methods. The learners’ responses to the standardized questionnaires also were analyzed by SPSS system Version 20. The findings of the present study although revealed that there is a high correlation between IELTS scores, strategy taking inventory scores. This revealed that the learners recording high scores in IELTS use appropriate learning strategies.
Keywords:
Language Learners, Learning Strategies.,
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- ISSN: 1302-6488
- Başlangıç: 2000
- Yayıncı: Anadolu Üniversitesi
Sayıdaki Diğer Makaleler
Evangelia MANOUSOU Tutor-Counselor Hellenic Open University
Evangelia MANOUSOU, Antonis LIONARAKIS
Fuad A. A.TRAYEK Institute of Education International Islamic University Malaysia
Fuad A. A.TRAYEK, Sharifah Sariah Syed HASSAN
Assist. Prof. Dr. Zehra OZDILEK
Zehra OZDILEK, Sehnaz BALTACI-GOKTALAY
Fateme BEHABADI, Behnam BEHFROUZ
Seyedeh Zahra Shamsi PAPKIADE, Seyed Mohammad SHOBEIRI, Mohammad Reza SARMADI