Now in a fifth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume
for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated …

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason
why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies …

Understanding students' learning strategies is important for teachers and researchers since
they try to develop a learning environment that stimulates high-quality learning outcomes. To …

METHODS Sample. Slightly more than 1,200 students, including approximately equal
proportions of men and women, participated in the study. They were almost all (97%) …

Research on Language Learning Strategies: Methods, Findings, and Instructional Issues Page
1 Research on Language Learning Strategies: Methods, Findings, and Instructional Issues …

In this article, Sandra McKay and Sau-Ling Wong argue for a revision of code-based and
individual learner-based views of second-language learning. Their position is based on a …

Ever since the early days of its existence, the field of psychology has been trying to achieve
two different and somewhat contradictory objectives: to understand the general principles of …

Language Learning Strategies, the Communicative Approach, and their Classroom Implications
Page 1 Language Learning Strategies, the Communicative Approach, and their Classroom …

As teachers, we all want to help learners discover how to learn languages more effectively
and more easily. One way of doing this is strategy training, which has recently caught the …

Multilinguals appear to become better at learning additional languages the more languages
they know, and in particular, to be faster at learning grammar. This study investigates the use …