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Language Learning Strategy Use: Perceptions of Female Arab English Majors
Author(s) -
Riazi Abdolmehdi
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2007.tb02868.x
Subject(s) - language learning strategies , metacognition , psychology , perception , arabic , mathematics education , compensation (psychology) , cognition , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
This study investigated the patterns of language learning strategy use among 120 female Arabic‐speaking students majoring in English at a university in Qatar. Perceptions of strategy use were measured by the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL, ESL/EFL Student Version). The study found that (1) this group of EFL learners featured medium bordering on high strategy users with an overall mean of 3A6 out of 5; (2) strategy categories were used in the order of metacognitive, cognitive, compensation, social, memory, and affective; (3) freshmen students reported the highest rate of strategy use with a mean of 3.64; and (4) except for compensation strategies, results did not show any significant difference among four educational levels regarding the use of strategy categories.