The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between university
students& / #8217 / use of language learning strategies, achievement, gender, span of learning
English, type of high school they graduated from, and attitude toward English. Two
instruments were used for data collection purposes: The Strategy Inventory for
Language Learning (SILL) developed by Oxford (1990) and Aiken& / #8217 / s Attitude Scale
(1979). The instruments were administered to 153 university students from the
different streams at the Preparatory school of BaSkent University, Ankara,
Turkey. The data gathered was analyzed by using SPSS program / descriptive
statistics, independent samples t-test, correlation, and one-way ANOVA. The results
showed that Metacognitive strategies category was the most frequently used
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category by the students, followed by Social strategies category, Compensation
strategies category, Memory strategies category, Cognitive strategies category and
Affective strategies category respectively. The results also showed that there were
statistically significant differences between male and female students& / #8217 / use of
strategies. Female students used strategies from various categories with higher
frequency compared to male students. There were statistically significant differences
between students& / #8217 / strategy use with regard to type of high school they graduated
from. There were no statistically significant differences between students& / #8217 / strategy
use with regard to span of learning English. Affective and Social strategy categories
were found to have statistically significant relation with the students& / #8217 / fall term
language achievement scores. The results also revealed that students& / #8217 / strategy use
had statistically significant relation with the students& / #8217 / attitude toward English.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/725309/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2003 |
| Creators | Ozgur Tunc, Sabiha |
| Contributors | Ok, Ahmet |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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