Although many scholars have conducted studies on Language Learning Strategies (LLS) around the world, this issue is still new in context of English for Medical Purposes (EMP), especially as used by Indonesian pharmacy students. Further, a majority those previous been using exclusively quantitative research. In response to these empirical and methodological gaps, current research adopts qualitat...

L2 learners’ multiple intelligences (MI) profile plays a central role in theirperformance on different aspects of language learning, one of which is the use oflanguage learning strategies (LLSs). Gaining insights into the relationship betweenMI and LLSs makes L2 teachers better understand their learners’ strengths andweaknesses in the use of such strategies and lets them guide the learners bett...

Styles and strategies are among the fundamental issues to be investigated in the language classroom in order to monitor learning process of language learners and to increase their awareness levels. Research on learner style and strategies suggests that a certain degree of awareness on these issues helps both learners and teachers distinguish between the weak and strong aspects of the learning p...

In recent years, language learning research has been paying more attention to the factors that may  affect  the  choice  by  language  learners  of  language  learning  strategies  in  general  and writing strategies in particular to enhance their own learning. Given the socio-cognitive nature of  the  act  of  writing,  as  Roca  de  Larios  et  al.  (2002)  note,  both  writer-internal  and  ...

The  present  study  attempted  to  examine  the  relationship  between  English  as  a  Foreign Language  (EFL)  learners’ motivational beliefs and their use of learning strategies. The three components  of  motivation,  i.e.  expectancy  component,  value  component  and  affective component,  were  examined  in  relation  to  metacognitive,  cognitive  and  effort  management strategies.  Tw...

abundantly clear though the need for effective eclectic techniques for enhancing learners’ vocabulary learning strategies may seem, in practice, language instructors, by all accounts, tend to resort to only a few obsolete ones. this review paper aims to provide a brief account of practices in vocabulary teaching and learning by focusing on the research on teaching words in context and out of co...

The present study was conducted to investigate whether there was a relationship between EFL learners’ use of language learning strategies and their self-perceived language proficiency at the two levels of intermediate and advanced. A total of 67 subjects (39 intermediate-level and 28 advanced) were selected to participate in this study based on their scores on a piloted language proficiency tes...