Author(s)

Yi-An Hou

St. Mary’s Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, Yilan.

The study aimed to investigate the role of strategy in foreign language learning, including students’ English learning behaviors, factors affecting students’ language learning strategy use, strategies that good and poor language learners used, and to compare with that of learners of FL, ESL, and EFL. Two hundred and twenty-four Taiwanese college students served as subjects of the study. The research design was a descriptive study and the research instrument was a questionnaire of motivation, belief, strategy, and anxiety. All available data were computed by using SPSS. Findings revealed that strategy use was the best predictor of successful language learning and motivational intensity played the most significant role in influencing strategy use. In addition, good language learners used more strategies and differences of strategy use existed among learners of FL, ESL, and EFL. It’s hoped to raise general awareness of language learning strategies and to bear in mind the individual difference of learners for effective teaching and learning.

Motivation, Belief, Anxiety, Strategy, Good and Poor Language Learners, FL, ESL, EFL

Hou, Y. (2018) A Study of the Role of Strategy in Foreign Language Learning. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 8, 151-175. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2018.85016.