Individual strategies for different learners

Abuelo de Paz, Marta

Individual strategies for different learners

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Abuelo de Paz, M. Individual strategies for different learners. 2012. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20026

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This paper makes an insight to the different theories related to the field of language learner strategy use. The first part is an introduction to the paper and the presentation of the research questions on which the paper is based. The second part consists of a review of the literature in this matter; a field of study full of different theories and lack of onsensus in basic issues. The third part presents the methodology employed in order to collect data to answer the research questions. The fourth part develops the research done; and finally the fifth part contains the conclusions that have been reached. /n/nThe paper has different aims. The first one, is trying to put the different theories about strategies together and show the difficulties which theorists and researchers have faced in defining, identifying and classifying strategies. The second aim, was to go over the group of strategies that is more frequently used by English as a foreign language learners. The third and fourth aims are to find out which concrete strategies are more frequently used and least frequently used by the students. The fifth aim was to determine whether strategies are related to individual differences or not. Finally, the last aim was to see if there is/nany difference in strategy use among different tasks, and in this case we/ncompare the use of strategies in listening, writing and collaborative work.

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