metacognitive strategy training for vocabulary learning

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1、MetacognitiveStrategyTrainingforVocabularyLearningAbstractResearchshowsthatnotallL2strategy-trainingstudieshavebeensuccessfulorconclusive.Sometraininghasbeeneffectiveinvariousskillareasbutnotinothers,evenwithinthesamestudy(Oxford,1989).Thepurposeofthepresentstudywastoshedlightontheis

2、sueostrategytraining.WehaveinvestigatedtheeffectofmetacognitivestrategytrainingthroughtheuseofexplicitstrategyinstructiononthedevelopmentoflexicalknowledgeofEFLstudents.ToreachthegoalofthestudytwogroupsofEFLlanguagelearnersatintermediatelanguageproficiencylevelwererandomlyassignedtoa

3、controlandanexperimentalgroup.Bothgroupsreceivedinstructiononvocabularylearningstrategiesthrougha10-weekperiodofinstruction.However,onlytheexperimentalgroupreceivedmetacognitivestrategytrainingduringthecourseofthesemester.Thetrainingmodelusedwasbasedontheframeworkfordirectlanguagelea

4、rningstrategiesinstructionproposedbyChamotandO'Malley(1994).TheresultofthestudyshowedthatexplicitmetacognitivestrategytraininghasasignificantpositiveeffectonthevocabularylearningofEFLstudents.[-1-]IntroductionIthasbeenclaimedthatsuccessfullanguagelearnershavetheirown"specialwaysofdoi

5、ngit".Stern(1975)andRubin(1975)wereprobablyamongthefirstresearcherswhobroughtuptheideaofsuccessfullanguagelearners.Theideacanprobablyhelpuswithbothunderstandingmoreaboutthenatureoflanguagelearningandalsotofacilitatethelanguagelearningprocessforothers.Sincethispremise,mostoftheresearc

6、hintheareaoflanguagelearningstrategieshasfocusedontheidentification,description,andclassificationofusefullearningstrategies.Theresearchhasbeendescriptivewiththeaimtoelicittheusefulstrategiesappliedbysuccessfullanguagelearnersassumingthatitcouldhelpotherlearnerstobecomemoresuccessful.

7、Rubin(1975),suggestedthatgoodL2learnersarewillingandaccurateguessers;haveastrongdrivetocommunicate;areoftenuninhibited;arewillingtomakemistakes;focusonformbylookingforpatternsandanalyzing;takeadvantageofallpracticeopportunities;monitortheirspeechaswellasthatofothers;andpayattentionto

8、meaning.Naim