简介:Despitethatlanguagelearningstrategy(LLS)hasbeenheatedlydiscussedsinceitsemergencein1975,itsconceptualization,categorizationandstrategytrainingmodelsarestillindispute.However,whatcommonlyrevealedbymoststudiesisthatthereisapositivecorrelationbetweentheuseoflanguagelearningstrategyandlanguagelearners’performance.ThispaperappliesDornyei’sclassification,knownascognitivestrategies,metacognitivestrategies,socialstrategiesandaffectivestrategies.ByreviewingpreviousstudiesontheapplicationofmetacognitivestrategyinEnglishasasecondlanguage(ESL)readingcomprehension,plentyofusefulimplicationsforreadingpedagogyaresuggested.Itfurtherexplainshowcertainimportantmetacognitivestrategies,namelySemanticMapping(SM)andExperience-Text-Relationship(ETR),canbeimplementedinsecondlanguagereadingcomprehension,aimingtoencouragelanguagelearnerstobeawareoflearningstrategies,“learnhowtolearn”(Cohen,1988,p66)!
简介:Thispaperaimsatdiscoveringwhatamongcommunicativeability,linguisticabilityandwritingstrategymostaffectsEnglishwritingabilityofnon-EnglishmajorsatChina’scolleges.Throughtheanalysisofcommunicativeproficienciesandlinguisticproficienciesoffoursubjectsobtainedfromtheircompositions,itisfoundoutthatneithertheircommunicativeabilitynortheirlinguisticabilityisthekeyfactor.ThustheauthorconcludesthatwritingstrategymaybecrucialtoEnglishwriting.Thepreliminaryconclusionisfurtherconfirmedwithquestionnaires.