Al-Hussain Bin Talal University Students' Awareness and Practices of English Language Learning Strategies

Abstract

This study aims   to investigate Al-Hussain Bin Talal University Students' awareness and practices of English language learning strategies. The researcher used the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL)  version.7 developed by  Oxford was administered as the instrument to elicit information on the students' use of language learning strategies. The instrument has 50 items distributed into six categories each containing a number of items. The instrument (SILL) was translated into Arabic by the researcher  to make it easier for Jordanian students to fill. The results showed that the meta cognitive learning strategy awareness has the highest  average (mean) and the  social learning strategy awareness has the lowest whereas  the affective and meta cognitive learning strategies practices have the highest  average (mean) and the  social learning strategy practices has the lowest. There is positive relationship between the awareness and practices of all leaning strategies and  there is significant statistical interaction between gender and faculty. There is statistical significant interaction between gender and faculty on the total score of the practices of learning strategies. In light of the results , some recommendations were given .

Keywords : awareness, practices, English language learning strategies .