Research into language learner strategies has the fundamental goal of improving the teaching and learning of second languages. This book explores the notion that the reason some learners of second languages excel and others struggle lies in what the learners themselves do-the strategies they bring to language learning and to language use.
Key features
- Provides a unique and timely re-examination of key issues such as strategies in context, strategy instruction, and strategy
research methods by numerous experts in the field.
- Offers an invaluable overview of what is known from empirical research about listening, reading, speaking, writing,
vocabulary, and grammar strategies.
- Proposes a clear and focused research agenda for the next decades.
Part One Issues, theories, and frameworks
Part Two Reviewing thirty years of empirical LLS research