I still remember the first time I approached learning strategies in the mid-nineties as a PhD
candidate. I discovered a new universe and I became aware of how much specialized …

A comprehensive manual for pre-and in-service ESL, EFL, and EIL educators who work with
multilingual students at the secondary and postsecondary levels, this text balances insights …

Second language listening has historically proved to be a difficult skill. Strategy instruction
studies have sought to bring about improvements in subjects' listening but with mixed …

This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates'
language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with …

With listening skills usually requiring a considerably long period of time to acquire, normally
involving the student experiencing a variety of emotions ranging from depression and …

This chapter reviews the models of translation competence and discusses the key notions of
competence, performance, declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge, which are …

This programme evaluation study examined the changes in writing motivation, self-
regulation and integrated writing task scores of international students over the course of a …

Este artículo tiene como objetivo determinar, basado en un estudio empírico, que el
entrenamiento en uso de estrategias de aprendizaje de lenguas (meta cognitivas …

Language learning strategies (LLS) research began in the mid-1970s with the main idea of
individual differences in learning a foreign language focusing primarily on the characteristics …

In the last thirty years, language learning strategies have been used in the field of English as
a Second Language (ESL) to help learners autonomously improve their English listening …