Open AccessLearning Strategies and English Language Teaching
Author(s) -
Ali Akbar Khansir,
Fatemeh Ghani Dehkordi,
Mostafa Mirzaei
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
theory and practice in language studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0692
pISSN - 1799-2591
DOI - 10.17507/tpls.1106.19
Subject(s) - syllabus , persian , test (biology) , graduation (instrument) , mathematics education , class (philosophy) , set (abstract data type) , language assessment , psychology , foreign language , english language , questionnaire , computer science , linguistics , sociology , engineering , artificial intelligence , programming language , mechanical engineering , paleontology , social science , philosophy , biology
Learning strategy has been an important topic of English language among teachers, researchers and syllabus designers in the history of English language teaching. Learning strategy and English language occupy the central role in teaching and learning in EFL setting. This paper discusses learning strategies and English language teaching in English foreign language in Iran. The aim of this research paper was to report the results of learning strategies of a group of twenty Iranian students of English, doing their post-graduation. The subjects for this research paper were Persian –speaking students doing M.A. course in Persian Gulf University, Bushehr. In this research paper, two sets of questionnaires were conducted. The first set was a background questionnaire consisted of subjects, gender, age and language attitude etc. The other test was the original test of willing (1994) survey included learning strategies questionnaire. This test consisted of twenty nine –items. Results of the analysis of this paper revealed that leaning strategies is an important criterion in getting the English knowledge of EFL students in their class.