Five key factors that affect language learning strategies are identified: motivation, gender, cultural background, attitudes and beliefs, and type of tasks. Motivation and gender influence the variety of strategies used, with motivated and female students using a wider array. Cultural background can determine strategies like memorization. Learners' attitudes and beliefs strongly impact their strategy use, while the nature of the task determines suitable strategies. Additional factors are age/level and learning style, which also guide students' strategy choices. Tolerance of ambiguity further influences the diversity and flexibility of strategies employed.

1. 5 FACTORS AFFECTING
LANGUAGE LEARNING
STRATEGIES
BY: AIZAT BIN ADNAN
(A143820)

2. TOLERANCE OF
AMBGUITY
MOTIVATION
GENDER
LEARNING STYLE
5 Factors Affecting Language
Strategies
CULTURAL
BACKGROUND
AGE & LEVEL
TYPE OF TASKS
ATTITUDEs &
BELIEFS

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

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