Estrategias de aprendizaje del segundo idioma y su variación a través de niveles de competencia en los alumnos Iraníes de EFL

A. Pazhakh

doi:10.29105/rinn3.6-10

Authors

A. Pazhakh Islamic Azad University, Tehran

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29105/rinn3.6-10

Keywords:

EFL, Proficiency, Second Foreign Language

Abstract

The present study has attempted to determine weather there is any relationship between language learning strategies employed by language learners, and if so what relationship exists between them. Furthermore, it has tried to investigate what effective and useful strategies the learners employ while learning English as a foreign language correspondent with their proficiency levels. A simulated TOEFL (REA, 1993) test was initially administered to classify the learners into three classes of proficiency levels. Oxford‟s Strategy Inventory, SILL, (Oxford, 1990) was used to determine the frequency of the language learning strategies applied by learners. The results of this study provide confirmation of previous research findings concerning the direct relationship between language learning strategies and language proficiency level, and represent the types of the strategies adopted by advanced, intermediate and elementary language learners. The implications of this study are to suggest both the metacognitive compensatory strategies, the most frequent strategies employed by advanced learners be instructed to the language learners in order to upgrade their proficiency level.

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