The purpose of this study is to understand the influence of English learning experience and metacognitive language learning strategy training
on students¡¦ language learning beliefs and achievement. The sample of this study is 42 third grade students in primary school.
The experimental group received metacognitive language learning strategy training while the control group didn¡¦t. The training program lasted for thirteen weeks.
The study adopted a pretest-posttest non-equivalent-control-group design. The t-test, analysis of variance and analysis of covariance were adopted to
examine the differences between participants¡¦ achievement. The percentage and mean were to describe participants¡¦ beliefs.
This study revealed six general findings. First, participants in this study have more realistic expectation and high motivation about learning English.
Second, students with English learning experience have better motivation beliefs, higher involvement and greater achievement.
They also tend to believe that every individual has English learning abilities. However, students without English learning experience changed
their attitude toward learning at the end of this study. Third, the strategy training can improve participants¡¦ beliefs and proved to be useful
with other learning materials, but only in difficult test the trained participants get better scores. Fourth, to most beliefs, learning experience
has better influence and strategy training affects greater on students with learning experience. Fifth, there is no significant interaction between
English learning experience and strategy training on achievement. Finally, metacognitive language learning strategy training can improve participants¡¦
reading abilities, but speaking skill is influenced by learning experience.
The conclusion provides suggestions for future development.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0625110-195909 |
| Date | 25 June 2010 |
| Creators | Chang, Wei-ting |
| Contributors | Chiu-Hui, Wu, Jin-Ya, Fang, Pei-Yi, Chou |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0625110-195909 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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