A preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / Surina Nayan and Hariharan N. Krishnasamy

One of the factors that determines students’ success in learning a language, is through their correct choices of strategy used. The study aims at identifying the students’ language learning strategies. The respondents were 48 diploma students from two different diploma programmes which are Diploma i...

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Main Authors: Nayan, Surina, N. Krishnasamy, Hariharan
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description One of the factors that determines students’ success in learning a language, is through their correct choices of strategy used. The study aims at identifying the students’ language learning strategies. The respondents were 48 diploma students from two different diploma programmes which are Diploma in Polymer Science and Diploma in Sports Recreation. The researcher adapts Edvardsdóttir’s (2010) questionnaire in acquiring the information needed for the study. The findings reveal that students from both programmes preferred guessing from context, asking their classmates, using google and using an on-line dictionary. On the other hand, they rarely seek their lecturer’s help in finding the meanings of words and they would rather seek others help. Future research should consider the use of a semi-structured interview with the respondents as to find the reasons why they preferred some strategies as compared to the others.
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spelling my.uitm.ir-861932023-11-06T03:49:20Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/86193/ A preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / Surina Nayan and Hariharan N. Krishnasamy eaj Nayan, Surina N. Krishnasamy, Hariharan Second language acquisition One of the factors that determines students’ success in learning a language, is through their correct choices of strategy used. The study aims at identifying the students’ language learning strategies. The respondents were 48 diploma students from two different diploma programmes which are Diploma in Polymer Science and Diploma in Sports Recreation. The researcher adapts Edvardsdóttir’s (2010) questionnaire in acquiring the information needed for the study. The findings reveal that students from both programmes preferred guessing from context, asking their classmates, using google and using an on-line dictionary. On the other hand, they rarely seek their lecturer’s help in finding the meanings of words and they would rather seek others help. Future research should consider the use of a semi-structured interview with the respondents as to find the reasons why they preferred some strategies as compared to the others. 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/86193/1/86193.pdf A preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / Surina Nayan and Hariharan N. Krishnasamy. (2018) e-Academia Journal <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/e-Academia_Journal/>, 7 (1). pp. 26-34. ISSN 2289 - 6589 https://e-ajuitmct.uitm.edu.my/v3/
spellingShingle Second language acquisition
Nayan, Surina
N. Krishnasamy, Hariharan
A preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / Surina Nayan and Hariharan N. Krishnasamy
title A preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / Surina Nayan and Hariharan N. Krishnasamy
title_full A preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / Surina Nayan and Hariharan N. Krishnasamy
title_fullStr A preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / Surina Nayan and Hariharan N. Krishnasamy
title_full_unstemmed A preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / Surina Nayan and Hariharan N. Krishnasamy
title_short A preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / Surina Nayan and Hariharan N. Krishnasamy
title_sort preliminary study on the post-secondary school students’ language learning strategies / surina nayan and hariharan n. krishnasamy
topic Second language acquisition
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