3. MOTIVATION
The more motivated students prone to use a
wide array of strategies than less motivated
students.
The precise reason for studying the language
such as motivational orientation, especially
related to career field was essential in the
choices of strategies.
4. GENDER
• Females use a wide variety of strategy use compare to males.
• But in certain strategy, males have surpassed females.
5. Cultural Background
• Major Asian students use rote memorization technique and other
type of memorization, compare to student from other cultural
background.
• Certain other cultures also appeared to foster this strategy among
learner.
6. Attitudes & Beliefs
• Attitudes and beliefs have been reported to have an
overwhelming effect to the learner when choosing strategy.
• Negative attitude and beliefs regularly cause feeble strategy use.
7. Type of Tasks
• Determination of strategy naturally engaged are helped by the
essence of the task.
8. Age & Level
• Students that have different level of language learning & ages
used different strategies.
• Older and advanced students used a particular type of strategies
than younger & beginner students.
9. Learning Style
• Learning style or common approach to language always
determined the choice of language learning strategies.
• For instance, global students used strategies to find interpretation
(guessing, scanning, predicting) and to converse without knowing
all the words (paraphrasing, gesturing), analytic-style students
would go for strategies such as contrastive analysis, rule-learning,
and dissecting words and phrases.
10. Tolerance of Ambiguity
• Students that is lack of tolerance towards ambiguity occasionally
use uniform learning strategies.
• Students that is tolerance to ambiguity use notable different
learning strategies.
strategies
