DEFINITIONS ABOUT LEARNING LANGUAGE STRATEGIES: LLS are the techniques or devices that learners use to acquire a second language knowledge. RUBIN 1975 LLS are some general order approaches to learning which govern the choice of specific techniques. STERN 1975 LLS are methods or conscious enterprise for exploiting available information to improve competence in second language. BAILYSTOK 1978 Language learning strategy is a generally a more or less deliberate approaches to learning. NAIMAN 1978 LLS are mental operations that learners used to accomplish learning tasks. COHEN 1984 Language learning strategy is an attempt to develop linguistic and sociolinguistic competence in the target language to incorporate these into ones interlanguage competence. TARONE 1983 LLS are set of operations, steps, plans and routines of what learners do to facilitate the obtaining, storage, retrieval and use of information and to regulate learning. RUBIN 1987 Refer to language learning behaviors learners actually engage in, strategic knowledge about learning, to learn and regulate a second language learning. WENDEN 1987 Refer to what learners do to learn and do to regulate their learning. WENDEN AND RUBIN 1987 LLS are techniques, approaches, or deliberate actions that students take in order to facilitate learning and recall of both linguistic and content area information. CHAMOT 1987 LLS are steps taken by the learner to aid the acquisition, storage and retrieval of information. OXFORD 1989 LLS are specific actions taken by the learner to make learning easier, faster, more enjoyable, more self-directed, more effective and more transferable to new situation. OXFORD 1990 LLS are specific actions, behaviors, steps or techniques that students use to improve their progress in developing second language skills. OXFORD 1993 LLS are plans and/or actions that learners take to enhance the process of language learning. MOHAMED AMIN EMBI 1996 Language learning strategies specific actions, behaviours, steps, or techniques that students (often intentionally) use to improve their progress in developing L2 skills. These strategies can facilitate the internalization, storage, retrieval, or use of the new language. Strategies are tools for the self-directed involvement necessary for developing communicativeability. REBECCA OXFORD

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