5 FACTORS AFFECTING LANGUAGE LEARNING

STRATEGIES

Prepared by :Muhammad Izzat Azeem

Factors

Age Gender Motivation Academic background Learning styles

AGEFrom my opinion, each person has their own level of maturity. If you are 20 years of age doesn’t mean that your’e smarter than a 19 year old.

Ramirez (1986) after identifying successful strategies employed by 105 learners of French at three levels of study (grade 8, grade 9-10 and grade 10-11) in two high schools in New York concluded that successful learning behaviours were dependent on the task, and that years of study influenced LLS use. The study also showed that certain strategies were employed more than others at different levels of study.

GENDERFemale tend to be more competitive and hardworking compare to male students. True or False?

Politzer (1983) examined ninety undergraduate foreign language learners, found a “relatively minor” difference between male and female learners with females making a greater use of social interaction strategies.

Oxford and Nyikos (1989) females reported more frequent strategy use than males of formal practice strategies, general study strategies and conversational input elicitation strategies (e.g. asking to speak slowly, requesting pronunciation correction, and guessing what the speaker will say).

MOTIVATION

Everyone has their own motivation to study.

According to Gardner (1985), motivation and attitudes are the primary sources contributing to individual language learning. Gardner has described the phenomenon of motivation as consisting of four components: a goal, effort, want, and attitudes toward the learning activity.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Children who were born with an educated parents tends to be smarter?

Slavin (1997)• Parent that highly educated make physical and mental preparation to help the development of physiology and cognitive or their children.•

LEARNING STYLE

Students have different styles in learning

Oxford (1989) argued that learners learn target languages for different reasons and purposes and this could have an effect on their choice of learning strategies.

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