Examining the Iranian EFL learners’ use of Language Learning Strategies

This study was an attempt to examine the use of language learning strategies (LLSs) by Iranian EFL learners. Moreover, particular attention was paid to determine if general self-efficacy beliefs of the learners were significant predictors of the use of LLSs. To this end, Oxford Placement Test (version 2007) as well as Oxford‟s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (version 7.0) were employed as the instruments of the study. Based on the performance of the available participants on the Oxford Placement Test (2007), fifty pre-intermediates (20 male and 30 female EFL learners) and forty intermediates (12 male and 28 female EFL learners) were recruited. Having administered the questionnaires, the data obtained were fed into SPSS (Version 19). The results of a One-Way ANOVA between groups also revealed that there was a significant difference between their uses of separate LLS categories; metacognitive and social strategies were respectively the highest and the lowest frequently used strategies by the participants.

Keywords:

EFL learners , Strategy , Language learning