Foreign language learning strategies for primary school student teachers
Vol.34,No.1-2(2024)
Current challenges of primary education
This research study focuses on the foreign language learning strategies used by student teachers in primary school. The research aim is to find out what strategies for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) are used by student teachers for primary school in the first and fifth year of study. Furthermore, we focus on their frequency and whether there are differences between the strategies used depending on the year of study, the number of languages and their motivation. The respondents of the research are 97 university students in the first and fifth year of the study field Teaching for primary school. The research instrument is the Strategy Inventory of Language Learning (SILL) questionnaire. Data are subjected to descriptive statistics and correlation analysis using the STATISTICA and JASP programs. The research results point to significant differences in the use of metacognitive strategies in the first and fifth year. The conclusion of the research focuses on the assumed dependence between the learning strategies used by teacher students and the way of teaching a foreign language in their future teaching practice.
language learning strategies (LLS); Strategy Inventory of Language Learning (SILL); English as a foreign language (EFL); teacher education; teaching English at primary school
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