Suchergebnisse

SECTION ONE: POLICIES -- University-School Partnerships; Kayoko Hashimoto and Samantha Disbray -- State Language Education Systems; David Hayes -- Language Curriculum Evaluation; Jason Loh and Willy Renandya -- Teacher Education; Zia Tajeddin and Samaneh Eslamdoost -- Plurilingualism; Sarah Moore -- Intercultural Language Teaching; Zia Tajeddin and Neda Khanlarzadeh -- Minority Language Learners' Needs; Eun Sung Park -- Language Assessment; Hassan Mohebbi -- SECTION TWO: PRACTICES -- English for Specific Purposes (ESP); Helen Basturkmen -- Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); Ronald Kemsies and Georg Hellmayr -- English-Medium Instruction (EMI); Vildan İnci Kavak & Yasemin Kirkgöz -- English as a Lingua Franca Pedagogy; Paul McBride and Glenn Toh -- Learner Agency Empowerment; Thuy Thi Ngoc Bui and Thom Thom Thi Nguyen -- Online Language Education Courses; Lu Yunru and Qing Ma -- Digital Technology in Language Teaching; I.G.A. Lokita Purnamika Utami and Sarah Prestridge. .

The language learning strategy question has been debated on a number of levels, including definition, the strategy/success relationship and strategy coordination. In addition, awareness has been steadily growing of the importance of taking an holistic view of the strategy phenomenon and examining strategies not just in isolation but as part of an overall picture which includes learning situation, learning target and individual learner characteristics. This article will first of all review the literature and the previous research on these controversial issues, and suggest a workable definition. Then, in order to illustrate the importance of such an holistic view, the results of a small scale study which looks at the strategies used by 16 successful language learners who were all either teaching English or teaching in English at university level will be reported. The quantitative results indicated that these successful learners used many strategies, especially those that suited their goals and their situations; they also frequently used and carefully orchestrated strategy repertoires which suited their own individual needs. The responses of one highly successful respondent were also examined qualitatively. The implications of these findings and the importance of viewing learners holistically are discussed and suggestions are made for ongoing research.