Graduate Students' Proficiency Strategy Attitutes on Autonomous Learning in Foreign Language Learning

Autor/in	Küçükler, Halil
Titel	Graduate Students' Proficiency Strategy Attitutes on Autonomous Learning in Foreign Language Learning
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 11 (2018) 7, S.142-145 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Active Learning; Student Attitudes; College Second Language Programs; Second Language Learning; Language Proficiency; Cognitive Style; Learning Strategies; Questionnaires; Personal Autonomy; Likert Scales; Language Tests; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Aktives Lernen; Schülerverhalten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Fragebogen; Individuelle Autonomie; Likert-Skala; Language test; Sprachtest; Ausland; Statistische Analyse; Türkei
Abstract	The aim of the study is to investigate the strategy attitudes of graduate students' proficiency attitudes on autonomous learning in foreign language learning. This survey was conducted in Balikesir University in academic years of of 2014-2015. The survey analyses graduate (Master of Arts) students' foreign language learning styles and strategies to find out to what extent they are autonomous. Two kinds of questionnaires were administered. The first one was learner autonomy survey questionnaire developed by Zhang and Li (2004), which was administered to investigate how autonomous the participants were in learning English as a foreign language. The second one was the perceptual learning style preference questionnaire (PLSPQ) developed by Reid (1987). The two questionnaires were administered to 600 graduate students enrolled in the Institutions of Social Sciences and the Institution of Health at Balikesir University in the academic years of 2014-2015. Only 504 graduate students responded the questionnaires. Then it was announced that there would be two types of English YDS preparation courses for the participants enrolled at Balikesir University, Institute of M.A programs. 30 participants applied to join the courses. The participants are assigned to two groups, as instructed and non-instructed on voluntary bases. The results of data analysis showed that most of the participants preferred to learn English in class. But few students believed that they would be successful by self-study. The learners did not use strategies in high level but they used them in medium level. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01