Cultural Differences in Learning: Revisited

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Cultural Differences in Learning Revisited

• Mariana Lazzaro

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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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Learning strategies

• Self-regulation
• Metacognitive
• a) planning
• b) monitoring
• c) evaluating
• Cognitive
• Social-affective

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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.

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