Task 7: Factors Affecting LLS
- 1. 5 FACTORS AFFECTING LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES BY: AIZAT BIN ADNAN (A143820)
- 2. TOLERANCE OF AMBGUITY MOTIVATION GENDER LEARNING STYLE 5 Factors Affecting Language Strategies CULTURAL BACKGROUND AGE & LEVEL TYPE OF TASKS ATTITUDEs & BELIEFS
- 3. MOTIVATION The more motivated students prone to use a wide array of strategies than less motivated students. The precise reason for studying the language such as motivational orientation, especially related to career field was essential in the choices of strategies.
- 4. GENDER • Females use a wide variety of strategy use compare to males. • But in certain strategy, males have surpassed females.
- 5. Cultural Background • Major Asian students use rote memorization technique and other type of memorization, compare to student from other cultural background. • Certain other cultures also appeared to foster this strategy among learner.
- 6. Attitudes & Beliefs • Attitudes and beliefs have been reported to have an overwhelming effect to the learner when choosing strategy. • Negative attitude and beliefs regularly cause feeble strategy use.
- 7. Type of Tasks • Determination of strategy naturally engaged are helped by the essence of the task.
- 8. Age & Level • Students that have different level of language learning & ages used different strategies. • Older and advanced students used a particular type of strategies than younger & beginner students.
- 9. Learning Style • Learning style or common approach to language always determined the choice of language learning strategies. • For instance, global students used strategies to find interpretation (guessing, scanning, predicting) and to converse without knowing all the words (paraphrasing, gesturing), analytic-style students would go for strategies such as contrastive analysis, rule-learning, and dissecting words and phrases.
- 10. Tolerance of Ambiguity • Students that is lack of tolerance towards ambiguity occasionally use uniform learning strategies. • Students that is tolerance to ambiguity use notable different learning strategies. strategies
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