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A comparative study on learning strategies used by Australian CFL and Chinese EFL learners

Chinese as a second language research, 2016-10, Vol.5 (2), p.213-239 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2016 ;ISSN: 2193-2263 ;EISSN: 2193-2271 ;DOI: 10.1515/caslar-2016-0009

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  • Title:
    A comparative study on learning strategies used by Australian CFL and Chinese EFL learners
  • Author: Jiang, Wenying ; Wu, Qingyu
  • Subjects: Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) ; Chinese languages ; Comparative studies ; English as a foreign language (EFL) ; English as a second language ; Language acquisition ; language learning strategy (LLS) ; 汉语作为外语 ; 英语作为外语 ; 语言学习策略
  • Is Part Of: Chinese as a second language research, 2016-10, Vol.5 (2), p.213-239
  • Description: This study compared language learning strategies used by Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) learners in Australia and English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in China through Oxford’s (1990. . Boston: Heinle and Heinle.) Strategy Inventory of Language Learning (SILL) questionnaire survey. Two cohorts of learners, namely Australian CFL learners (N=101) and Chinese EFL learners (N=100), participated in this study. It was found that the most frequently used strategies by the Chinese EFL learners were strategies while the most frequently used strategies by the Australian CFL learners were strategies. Australian female learners used slightly more strategies than male learners, but no difference was found in the strategies used by the Chinese EFL male and female learners. No significant difference was found either in the strategies used by learners of different grade levels, regardless of whether they were Chinese EFL or Australian CFL learners. Scores of some individual categories significantly differed between the three levels of the Australian CFL learners and the four levels of the Chinese EFL learners. In general the Chinese EFL learners used more strategies when compared with those used by the Australian CFL learners. Pedagogical implications of the findings were also discussed. This study contributes to the research in language learning strategies in that it considers the typological distance between learners’ L1 and the target language for the first time. It also has clarified the seemingly inconsistent findings in the literature in terms of strategies use by Asian learners (Chinese learners in this case): when compared with other categories of strategies, strategies were used the least frequently by the Chinese EFL learners; when compared with learners from other cultural backgrounds such as the Australian or American, the Chinese EFL learners used strategies more frequently.
  • Publisher: Berlin: De Gruyter
  • Language: English;Chinese
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2193-2263
    EISSN: 2193-2271
    DOI: 10.1515/caslar-2016-0009
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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