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LEARNER STRATEGIES AND COMMUNICATIVE ACQUISITION: LEARNER’S AUTONOMY FROM THE INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Corresponding Author(s) : Keshav Nath
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews,
Vol. 7 No. 6 (2019): November
Abstract
Purpose: To investigate the conscious strategies learners use in acquiring language skills, though the main focus of the investigation has been on communicative strategies used in the SLA environment coping with communication difficulties in the target language situation.
Methodology: A survey has been conducted of 100 BBA students (to understand the strategies adopted by them) with the help of questionnaires and follow up interviews which are used for observations in this study.
Main findings: Learners do indulge different kinds of learning strategies and the choice of these strategies depends on the aim, objective and situation. Also, this selection/choice vary from learner to learner.
Applications: This study will be useful for the teachers and students of ELT, EFL, and SLA to understand how learning strategies affect learning.
Novelty: The goal of this study is to monitor learner strategies and to develop the learners’ motivational or affective level, or methods of selecting, organizing, acquiring and integrating new knowledge of the students. (Chamot and O’Malley, 1990), then by providing them with the tools to self-regulate their learning autonomy will be functional.
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- Agrawal, S. (2012). Learner Strategies in Language Learning: Way to Language Mastery. Voices, 2(2), 64–80.
- Bialystok, E. (1978). A Theoretical Model of Second Language Learning. Language Learning, 28(1), 69–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-1770.1978.tb00305.x DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-1770.1978.tb00305.x
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- Cohen A.D., (1981) Introspection about Second Language Learning. In Paper Presented at AILA Congress. Lund, Sweden, 9-15.
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- Little, D. (n.d.). (2007). Learner Autonomy: Drawing together the threads of self-assessment, goalsetting and reflection.
- Mclaughlin, B. (1978). The Monitor Model: Some Methodological Considerations. Language Learning, 28(2), 309–332. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-1770.1978.tb00137.x DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-1770.1978.tb00137.x
- O'Malley, J. M., & Chamot, A. U. (1990). Learning strategies in second language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139524490 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139524490
- Oxford, R. L. (1990). Language Learning Strategies: What Every Teacher Should Know. New York: Newberg House.
- Palinscar, A. S., & Brown, A. L. (1984). Reciprocal Teaching of Comprehension-Fostering and Comprehension-Monitoring Activities. Cognition and Instruction, 1(2), 117–175. Rubin, J., & Henze, R. (1981). The Foreign Language Requirement: A Suggestion to Enhance its Educational Role in Teacher Training. TESOL Newsletter, 15;17;19;24. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci0102_1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci0102_1
- Rubin, J. (1975). What the "good language learner†can teach us. TESOL Quarterly, 9(1): 41-51. https://doi.org/10.2307/3586011 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3586011
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- Smith, M. S. (1981). Consciousness-Raising and the Second Language Learner1. Applied Linguistics, 2(2), 159–168. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/II.2.159 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/II.2.159
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Bialystok, E. (1978). A Theoretical Model of Second Language Learning. Language Learning, 28(1), 69–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-1770.1978.tb00305.x DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-1770.1978.tb00305.x
Blidi, S. (2016). Learner Autonomy and the CLA Perspective. Collaborative Learner Autonomy, 97–131. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2048-3_4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2048-3_4
Brown, A. L., & Palinscar, A. S. (1982). Introducing Strategic Learning from Text by means of Informed Self Control Training, Topics in Learning and Learning Disabilities. Special Issue on Metacognition and Learning Disabilities, 1–17.
Carton, Aaron. (1966). The “Method of Inference†in Foreign Language Study. The Modern Language Journal. 54.10.2307/322203.
Cohen A.D., (1981) Introspection about Second Language Learning. In Paper Presented at AILA Congress. Lund, Sweden, 9-15.
Ellis, G., & Sinclair, B. (1989). Learning to learn English: a course in learner training. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.
Hadzibeganovic, T., & Cannas, S. A. (2009). A Tsallis’ statistics based neural network model for novel word learning. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 388(5), 732–746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2008.10.042 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2008.10.042
Little, D. (n.d.). (2007). Learner Autonomy: Drawing together the threads of self-assessment, goalsetting and reflection.
Mclaughlin, B. (1978). The Monitor Model: Some Methodological Considerations. Language Learning, 28(2), 309–332. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-1770.1978.tb00137.x DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-1770.1978.tb00137.x
O'Malley, J. M., & Chamot, A. U. (1990). Learning strategies in second language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139524490 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139524490
Oxford, R. L. (1990). Language Learning Strategies: What Every Teacher Should Know. New York: Newberg House.
Palinscar, A. S., & Brown, A. L. (1984). Reciprocal Teaching of Comprehension-Fostering and Comprehension-Monitoring Activities. Cognition and Instruction, 1(2), 117–175. Rubin, J., & Henze, R. (1981). The Foreign Language Requirement: A Suggestion to Enhance its Educational Role in Teacher Training. TESOL Newsletter, 15;17;19;24. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci0102_1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci0102_1
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Rubin, J. (1987). Learner strategies: Theoretical assumptions, research history and typology. In A. Wenden & J. Rubin (Eds.), Learner strategies in language learning. Englewood, NJ: Prentice/Hall International, pp. 15-30.
Smith, M. S. (1981). Consciousness-Raising and the Second Language Learner1. Applied Linguistics, 2(2), 159–168. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/II.2.159 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/II.2.159
Tarone, E. (1977). Conscious Communication Strategies in Inter Language: A Progress Report. In H.D. Brown Et. Al (Eds.) On TESOL '77: Teaching and Learning ESL, 194–203.
Yagcioglu, O. (2015). New Approaches on Learner Autonomy in Language Learning. In Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. (Vol. 199, pp. 428–435). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.529 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.529
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