Supporting learning strategies in a course of Business English at university
Vol.12,No.1(2022)
The purpose of this study is to find out about the effects of including activities supporting learning strategies into courses of business English at university. We used the method of experiment to find out about the impact of these activities on performance of students and their usage of language learning strategies. The author of this paper included a training of language learning strategies into one of two parallel groups of the same course. At the end of the course, students of both groups were asked to fill a questionnaire discovering what kind of learning strategies the students used. Furthermore, we compared the test results in order to observe the impact of a learning strategies training on students’performance. We found out that including such activities into a language course has positive effects both on student performance and the intensity of using language learning strategies. Of course, given the limited number of students taking part in the experiment, we have to avoid excessive generalisation of the results. Nevertheless, the results of the study imply, that including language strategies in class could have positive effects.
learning strategies; business English
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