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Number 1!

Motivation

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Motivation

Carnegie Mellon

• Students will be more motivated if they know what goals are they working towards.

• No goals means that they would not have the spirit to learn because there are no target to achieve.

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Motivation is divided into two(Kendra Cherry)

INTRINSIC • Own satisfaction• Performing an

activity for the sake of its own sake rather than external reward.

EXTRINSIC

• We are motivated to do something to get reward or to avoid a punishment.

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Mc Intyre and Noels (1996)

• More motivated learners used more LLS and they tend to use it more frequently compared to the less motivated learners.

• Motivated learner adopt more LLS and used them more frequent compared to the less motivated.

Oxford and Nyikos (1989)

• Motivation is an important factor influencing the LLS usage.

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Tamada (1996)

• Integrative and instrumental motivation had a significant effect on learner’s choice of LLS.

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Number 2!

LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE

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O’Malley et al (1985b)

• Intermediate student uses more metacognitive strategies than the beginner.

• Translation strategies was used more by beginners.

Chen (1990)

• Low-proficiency students employed more communication strategies than the high-proficiency ones.

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Chen (2002)

• Cognitive and metacognitive strategies showed very high correlations with the proficiency level of the participants and were used by high-proficiency learners.

• Compensation strategies favored by both high- and low-proficiency students with the low-proficiency students outperforming the high-proficiency students in their use of such strategies.

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NUMBER 3!

LEARNINGSTYLES!

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(Ehrman and Oxford, 1990 ; Rossi- Le, 1995; among others)

• Individual’s learning styles preferences influence the type of LLS they use.

Rossi- Le (1995)

• Learners who favors group study are shown to use social and interactive strategies, such as working with peers or requesting clarification.

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Number 4

GENDER

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( Politzer, 1983 ; Hashim and Salih, 1994; Wharton, 2000)

• Females have consistently been reported as using LLS more frequently than males do.

Oxford and Nyikos (1989)

• Females use more LLS than males of formal practice strategies, general study strategies, and conversational input elicitation strategies.

• As for example, asking to speak slowly, requesting pronunciation correction and guess what the speaker will say.

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Last but not least…….

Experience in Language Learning

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Ramirez (1986)

• Years of learning affected the use of nine (out of 50) strategies indicated in the inventory.

Purdie and oliver’s (1999)

• study showed that student who had been in Australia for a longer period of time ( 3 or less years or 4 or more) obtain significantly higher mean scores for cognitive strategy and for memory strategies.

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