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Cultural Differences in Learning: Revisited

Cultural Differences in Learning: Revisited. Mariana Lazzaro. “ Language learning strategies are specific actions, behaviours, steps, or techniques that the students employ-often consciously-to improve their own progress in internalizing, storing, retrieving and using L2”. (Oxford 1990).

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Cultural Differences in Learning: Revisited

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  1. Cultural Differences in Learning: Revisited Mariana Lazzaro

  2. “Language learning strategies are specific actions, behaviours, steps, or techniques that the students employ-often consciously-to improve their own progress in internalizing, storing, retrieving and using L2”. (Oxford 1990)

  3. Learning strategies • Self-regulation • Metacognitive a) planning b) monitoring c) evaluating • Cognitive • Social-affective

  4. Some findings: • Indonesian: memory, metacognitive, affective strategies • Australian: cognitive, compensation, social • Spanish: “highly traditional strategies” • Chinese, Hungarian and Turkish: memorization, recitation, repetition, note-taking, grammar translation.

  5. Bibliography: • Beebe, Leslie M; Takahashi, Tomoko. “do you have a bag: Social status and patterned variation in second language acquisition”. Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Discourse and Pragmatics. Multilingual Matters Ltd. 1989. • Sri Lengkanawati, Nenden. “How learners from different cultural backgrounds learn a foreign language”. Asian EFL Journal. 2004. • “Nationality and language learning strategies of ELT-Major university students”. Asian EFL Journal. 2004. • “Communicating effectively with Chinese students in EFL/ESL classrooms”, “Language learning and awareness of personality type in Chinese settings”, “A native approach to ELT: Universal or Asian?”. English Language Learning in the Asian Context. 2004 • Qingyang, Gui. “Beware of blind Westernisation of TEFL in Asia: a Chinese case study”. The Journal of Asia TEFL, Vol.2, No 2, pp.23-33. Summer 2005. • Stone Hanley, Mary. “The scope of multicultural education”. Banks, James A.. “Diversity within unity: essential principles for teaching and learning in a multicultural society”. http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/multicultural

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