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Volume 11 : 9 September 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Exploring Nature of Definitions and Classifications of Language Learning Strategies (LLSs) in the Current Studies of Second/Foreign Language Learning

Seyed Hossein Fazeli, M.A.

Abstract

This study aims to explore the nature of definitions and classifications of Language Learning Strategies (LLSs) in the current studies of second/foreign language learning in order to show the current problems regarding such definitions and classifications. The present study shows that there is not a universal agreeable definition and classification for LLSs; however, Oxford’s definition and classification have received considerable attention in the related literature.

1. Introduction

Since 1970s, dozens of studies have contributed to our understanding of Language Learning Strategies (LLSs) used by ESL/EFL learners at the level of adults. Such studies show that in order to affect changes in perceptions of the learners’ role in learning process; we need to discover more about what learners do to learn language successfully.

Thirty years history of LLSs is much sporadic (Chamot, 2005), and even controversy among the prominent researchers in the field of terminology, as Wenden and Rubin (1987) argue “the elusive nature of the term” (p.7). The literature includes terms such as “technique” (Stern, 1983), “tactic” (Larsen-Freeman & Long, 1991; Seliger, 1984), “move” (Sarig, 1984), which are not clearly defined. In this way, agreement on the terminology of strategies has been one of the fundamental problems that continues to be stressed in the related studies. Such a situation is the result of different approaches among the researchers in the related field.

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Seyed Hossein Fazeli
Research Scholar in Linguistics
Department of Studies in Linguistics
KIKS, University of Mysore
Mysore-570006
India
fazeli78@yahoo.com
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