Overachievers and Underachievers’ Strategies in Learning the Language Skills
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| Title | Overachievers and Underachievers’ Strategies in Learning the Language Skills |
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| Abstract | The current study investigated the preferences of Overachievers and Underachievers’ strategies in learning the language skills. To this aim, three types of language learning strategies-metacognitive, cognitive, and socioaffective- were applied to make a 28-item Likert-type questionnaire, respectively for the four language skills, of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, for 100 university English students (50 overachievers and 50 underachievers) to select their strategies in learning each language skill. The results indicated that both groups were aware of the learning strategies, but overachievers used more strategies for learning one language skill; also, their strategies were more coherent. Hence, overachievers’ strategies were more effective and could be applied to underachievers in order to help them succeed more in learning the foreign language skills. |
| Publisher | World Science Publisher |
| Date | 2013-06-18 |
| Source | 2167-6429 |
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