Influence of learners' individual differences on the effectiveness of strategy intervention: toward the development of long-term learner support system

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520719
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: IKEDA Maiko 関西大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (00425323)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAKEUCHI Osamu 関西大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (40206941)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: メタ認知方略 / 学習者要因 / 他律的学習 / 協働学習

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research found that in acquiring new metacognitive strategies language learners tend to have strong feeling that they want to solve the difficulty of learning, and then to confirm the effectiveness of the strategies taught in the multiple opportunities. Furthermore, some possible factors that impede their acquisition of metacognitive strategies were also found: the lack of other-regulated learning; and the effort required by learners to incorporate the strategies. These hypotheses developed were then checked. The results revealed that other-regulation of learning had more effect on the acquisition of metacognitive strategies than learners’ affective factors, although extrinsic motivation and self-efficacy among their affective factors also had an influence to some extent. Based on these findings, this research proposed collaborative learning in the class as one of the ways to trigger other-regulated learning beyond the classroom, and verified its possibility.

Free Research Field

英語教育学