A Study of Second Foreign Language Learning Strategies Used by College Students in Taiwan 王愛梅、Susanne Schaefer
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ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to investigate the language learning strategies used by college second foreign language learners. There were 150 students with backgrounds in English as their first foreign language and enrolled in the Department of Japanese, French and German as their second foreign language. Participants were from Department of Japanese, French and German at Da Yeh University. The instruments used in this research for data gathering were questionnaire’s and person interviews. The result of this study may be of importance in explaining how second foreign language learning strategies are used, as well as in providing second foreign language instructors in Taiwan with a better understanding of learners’ learning strategies use. This study employed Language Strategy Use Inventory (Andrew D. Cohen, Rebecca L. Oxford, and Julie C. Chi, 2005) to evaluate the frequency with which learners used a variety of Second Foreign Language learning strategies, and conducted the oral interviews with eight Open-ended questions. Results from this study point out that among the four strategic groups “Listening strategies” were the highest ranking categories employed by the participants, and the “Vocabulary strategies” were the least often used by learners.
Furthermore, the effective learners used learning strategies more than the less effective group. Finally, insights derived from current studies suggest the research issues for the field of second foreign language learning and strategy instruction and training in future.
Keywords : College students ; Second foreign language ; Foreign language learning strategy ; Second foreign language learners Table of Contents
封面內頁………i 簽名頁………
………ii 授權書………iii 中文摘要………
………iv ABSTRACT………
………v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS………vi TABLE OF
CONTENTS……… vii LIST OF TABLES………
………x Chapter I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study………
1 1.2 Purpose of the Study………5 1.3 Significance of the Study………
………….………5 1.4 Research Questions……….……… 7 1.5 Definition of Terms………
……….………7 Chapter II. LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Overview on Language Learning Strategies……
………10 2.1.1 Language Learning Strategies………10 2.1.2 The Importance of
Language Learning Strategies………13 2.1.3 History of Studies on the Foreign Language Learning Strategies………
……… 15 2.1.4 The Classifications of Language Learning Strategies……… 17 2.2 Research on Second Foreign Language Learning………26 2.2.1 Education and Second Foreign Language Learning………
…26 2.2.2 The Role of Learning Strategies in Second Foreign Language Learning………
………. 28 2.3 Second Foreign Language Education in Taiwan……… 29 2.3.1 The Language Environment of Taiwan ……… 29 2.3.2 The Development of Foreign Languages Classes in Taiwan……30 2.3.3 Second Foreign Language Education of Colleges/Universities in Taiwan………..
33 Chapter III. METHODOLOGY 3.1 Participants ………..……… 35 3.2
Instrumentation……… 36 3.2.1 Quantitative Method……….…………
………37 3.2.2 Qualitative Method………39 3.3 Pilot Study………
……… 41 3.4 Procedures……… 43 3.5 Data Analysis……… 44 Chapter IV. RESULTS 4.1 Results from the Language Strategy Use Inventory………46 4.2 Differences in Second Foreign Language Learning Strategies Employed by Japanese, German and French Learners……… 55 4.3 Differences in Second Foreign Language Learning Strategies between Effective and Less Effective Learners……… 60 4.4 The Interview Results………
………..…… 76 Chapter V. DISSCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 5.1 Summary of the Study………
………..… … 86 5.2 Discussion of the Results……… 87 5.2.1 Research Question One …
……….…… 88 5.2.2 Research Question Two ………90 5.2.3
Research Question Three……….. 93 5.3 Limitations of the Study………
…………. 96 5.4 Suggestions for Further Studies……….97 5.5 Conclusion………
………98 REFERENCES Chinese References………
…100 English References………103 APPENDIX A LSUI CHINESE VERSION
……… ……. 112 APPENDIX B LSUI ENGLISH VERSION……….……… 122 APPENDIX C ORAL INTERVIEW CHINESE VERSION………..……… 130 APPENDIX D ORAL INTERVIEW ENGLISH VERSION………….….……… 131 APPENDIX E TRANSCRIPTION of the RECORDED INTERVIEWS…
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