Strategies of second language learners: some research findings and their pedagogical implications

Abstract

This article deals with a question of how much we know about the processes accounting for success in learning a second/foreign language, and whether and how this knowledge can be used to plan learner-training activities. Some major research findings in the area of language learning strategies are presented together with suggestions as to how they may have a positive effect on language learning. In particular, the so-called “good language learner” studies and studies attempting to identify relationship between range, type, and frequency of learning strategy use and the learning tasks involved are discussed by the author.