GGGV1244LANGUAGE LEARNING

STRATEGIES

By : Nor Aika Irfatini Binti Abu Hasan Ashaari

Factors Affecting Language Learning

Strategies

Factors Affecting Language Learning

Strategies

1. Gender1. (Dreyer & Oxford, 1996; Green & Oxford, 1995; Lan & Oxford, 2003; Lee & Oh, 2001; Oxford & Ehrman, 1995; in Lee and Oxford, 2008) states that women use learning strategies more often than men.2. The research findings indicate that women more frequently use memory, cognitive and social strategies.

3. Women tend to deploy all types of strategies more frequently.4. Female used general learning strategies more often, and authentic strategies, strategies of getting and communicating meaning, as well as self-direction strategies were more frequently deployed by female respondents. (Ehrman and Oxford 1989).5. Female also use metacognitive strategies as planning and monitoring strategies

Female students employing language learning strategies more frequently than their male counterparts in order to prepare themselves for classroom lessons, understand while studying in class, improve their language skills,

and expand their general knowledge of English.

So I can conclude that women tend to make use of more language strategies than men did.

2. Age

1. Young children make use of cognitive and social strategies more. (Wong-Fillmore,1979)

2. Repetition and memorization used among from young learners.

3. In gaining the proficiency,young learners start to clarify and maintain the interaction to language

4. Finally (grown up) they develop strategies for identification to improve their grammar

5. Secondary school students were generally use cognitive strategies and the metacognitive strategies were reported by some more advance learner.

6. Adults may have an easier time learning a second language because of knowledge of a first language. However, often their second language is learned in a classroom setting and interference is greater than in a natural setting, which is how children usually learn.

3. Motivation Gardner (1985)

Motivation and attitudes are primary sources contributing to individual language learning.

People are motivated to learn a language because of the 2 factors which are:

1. Intergrative : wish to become a part of culture of the language being learned.

2. Instrumental : to pass exam and get a job.

Both factors lead to profeciency of the language but intergrative factor motivated people to learn more and make use of various strategies to master a language.

Oxford and Nyikos (1989) indicate that the learners with high motivation to learn a language will likely use a variety of strategies.

Achievement as motivation. The level of achievement of individuals will motivate them more to explore new strategies that suit them in order to be profecient in a language.

4. Aptitude Of Individuals

1. Different people may practice different language learning strategies base on their ability and efficiency of the strategies that they use.

2. Students/learners are assessed on their ability to memorize,understanding function words,figure out grammatical rules and memorizing new words to make sure that they start using strategies that effective with their ability.

Why do some learners do better than others?

3. Language learners strengths and weaknesses in all those different components may account for their ability to suceed in different strategies used in learning a language.

5. Learning Style

This factor used to identify Language Learner Strategies base on individuals natural,habitual, and preffered way absorbing ,processing and retaining new information and skills.

VISUAL AUDITORY KINESTHETIC

Answer this and you know how to develop your Language Learning

Strategies!!

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