Research Article

Development of language learning strategies: student practices before and during online education

Number: 26 February 21, 2022
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Development of language learning strategies: student practices before and during online education

Abstract

This article presents the results of a quantitative survey carried out with the participation of 52 students in the Department of French Language Teaching at Atatürk Faculty of Education of Marmara University in Istanbul. This study questions the language learning strategies of bachelors and master degree students before and during online education. Unexpectedly confronted with a change of situation in education, the students found themselves overnight having to follow an online way of studying to which they were unfamiliar with over the night. Not only strategic, technical, technological, organizational and spatial but also psychological and sociological adaptation were immediately necessary. This study highlights the language learning strategies of students based on four main axes: the first one is based on cognitive strategies, the second one emphasizes metacognitive strategies, the third one is on effective strategies and the fourth and the last one is on resource management strategies. The aim is to understand the development of student learning practices during online education, and to understand the new strategies put in place by the students themselves in order to adapt to this new way of teaching. Have they stuck to their familiar language learning strategies or have they developed new language learning strategies? We tried to understand whether the students continued studying using the same language learning strategies as before during online education or not, and whether they readjusted, modified, developed their learning strategies as needed.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

February 21, 2022

Submission Date

December 22, 2021

Acceptance Date

February 20, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Number: 26

APA
Ertek, B. (2022). Development of language learning strategies: student practices before and during online education. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 26, 1039-1063. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1074519