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Strategies & Styles

2022. Wang, I. K.-H., & Cohen, A. D. (2022). Self-access strategy instruction for academic writing vocabulary: What learners actually do. Applied Linguistics. [free access] https://academic.oup.com/applij/advance-article/doi/10.1093/applin/amac056/6779826?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=applij&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=bf282cc8-9a36-4cbc-88fa-0dfc88601557

2021. Wang, I. K.-H., & Cohen, A. D. Investigating learner engagement in strategy instruction focused on vocabulary for academic writing: A case study. System, 99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2021.102501. (Paper available upon request.)

2019. Strategy instruction for learning and performing target language pragmatics. In A. U. Chamot & V. Harris (eds.), Learning strategy instruction in the language classroom: Issues and implementation (pp. 140-152).. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.


2019. Cohen, A. D., & Henry, A. Focus on the language learner: Styles, strategies and motivation. In N. Schmitt & M. P. H. Rogers (eds.), An introduction to applied linguistics (pp. 165–189). 3rd edition. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

2019. Cohen, A. D., & Wang, I. K.-H. Fine-tuning word meanings through mobile app and online resources: A case study of strategy use by a hyperpolyglot. System, 85, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2019.102106 (Paper available upon request.)


2019. Pinilla-Herrera, A. & Cohen, A. D.  Estilos y estrategias de aprendizaje (Learning styles and learning strategies). In J. Muñoz-Basols, E. Gironzetti, & M. Lacorte (eds.), Routledge handbook of Spanish language teaching: Metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2 (pp. 38-51). Abingdon, England: Routledge.

2018. Reflections on a career in second language studies: Promising pathways for future research. L2 Journal, 10(1), 1-19.

2018. Cohen, A. D., & Wang, I. K.-H. Fluctuation in the functions of language learner strategies. System, 74, 169-182. (Available on request.)

2018. Cohen, A. D., & Wang, I. K.-H. Corrigendum to “Fluctuation in the functions of language learnerstrategies” [System 74C (2018) 169-182], System 78, 256-265. (Attached to the previous pdf.)

2018. Pinilla-Herrera, A. & Cohen, A. D. Estilos y estrategias de aprendizaje (Learning styles and learning strategies). In J. Muñoz-Basols, E. Gironzetti, & M. Lacorte (eds.), Routledge handbook of Spanish language teaching: Metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2 (pp. 38-51). Abingdon, England: Routledge.

2018. Jiang, X. & Cohen, A. D. Learner strategies for dealing with pronunciation issues in Mandarin. System, 76, 25–37. (Available upon request.)

2015. Cohen, A. D. & Griffiths, C. Revisiting LLS research 40 years later. TESOL Quarterly, 49(1).

2013. Cohen, A. D. & Li, P. Learning Mandarin in later life: Can old dogs learn new tricks? Contemporary Foreign Language Studies, 396(12), 5-14. Doi: 10.3969/j. issn. 1674-8921.201312.002.

2012. Comprehensible pragmatics: Where input and output come together. In M. Pawlak (Ed.), New perspectives on individual differences in language learning and teaching (pp. 249-261). NY, NY: Springer.

2012. Strategies: The interface of styles, strategies, and motivation on tasks. In S. Mercer,  S. Ryan, & M. Williams (Eds.), Language learning psychology: Research, theory, and pedagogy (pp. 136-150). Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan.

2012. Jiang, X. & Cohen, A. D. A Critical review of research on strategies in learning Chinese as both a second and foreign language. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2(1), 9-43.

2011. Cohen, A. D., Pinilla-Herrera, A., Thompson, J. R., & Witzig, L. E. Communicating grammatically: Evaluating a learner strategy website for Spanish grammar. CALICO Journal  (Journal of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium), 29(1), 145-172.

2011. L2 learner strategies (Ch. 41). In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning, Vol. II - Part V. Methods and instruction in second language teaching (pp. 681-698). Abingdon, England: Routledge.

2011. Cohen, A D. Strategies in learning and using a second language. Abingdon, England: Routledge/Pearson Education. https://www.routledge.com/Strategies-in-Learning-and-Using-a-Second-Language/Cohen/p/book/9781408253991

2010. Cohen, A. D. & Pinilla-Herrera, A. Communicating grammatically: Constructing a learner strategies website for Spanish. In T. Kao & Y. Lin (Eds.), A new look at language teaching and testing: English as subject and vehicle (pp. 63-83). Taipei, Taiwan: The Language Training and Testing Center.

2008. Speaking strategies for independent learning: A focus on pragmatic performance. In S. Hurd & T. Lewis (Eds.), Language learning strategies in independent settings (pp. 119-140). Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.

2008. Strategy instruction for learners of Japanese: How do you do it and what's in it for them? In Y. A. Hatasa (Ed.), Gaikokugo to shite no nhongo kyooiku: Takakutei shiya ni motozuku kokoromi  ‘Japanese as a foreign language education: Multiple perspectives’ (pp. 45-60). Tokyo: Kurosio Shuppan.

2008. Prologue. In C. Griffiths (Ed.), Lessons from good language learners (pp. 7-9). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

2008. Cohen, A. D. & White, C. Language learners as informed consumers of language instruction. In A. Stavans & I. Kupferberg (Eds.), Studies in language and language education: Essays in honor of Elite Olshtain (pp. 185-205). Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press.

2007. Coming to terms with language learner strategies: Surveying the experts. In A. D. Cohen & E. Macaro (Eds.), Language learner strategies: 30 years of research and practice (pp. 29-45). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2007. Cohen, A. D. & Macaro, E. Language learner strategies: 30 years of research and practice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 

2006. Cohen, A. D. & Weaver, S. J. Styles and strategies-based instruction: A teachers’ guide. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota. (Available through Amazon.)

2006. Culture-Learning Strategies Inventory. [Constructed by M. Paige et al.] Minneapolis, MN: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota.

2005. Cohen, A. D., Paige, R. M., Shively, R. L., Emert, H., & Hoff, J. Maximizing study abroad through language and culture strategies: Research on students, study abroad program professionals, and language instructors. Final Report to the International Research and Studies Program, Office of International Education, DOE. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota. 

2003. The learner’s side of foreign language learning: Where do styles, strategies, and tasks meet? International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 41(4), 279-291. (Special Issue, R. Oxford, Ed., entitled “Language Learning Styles and Strategies: New Perspectives on Theory and Research”)

2002. Assessing and enhancing language learners’ strategies. Hebrew Higher Education, 10, 1-11.

2002. Mental and written translation strategies in ESL. MinneTESOL/WITESOL Journal, 19, 1-14.

2000. Brooks-Carson, A. & Cohen, A. D. Direct vs. translated writing: Strategies for bilingual writers.  In M. Anderson, C. Klee, F. Morris, B. Swierzbin, & E. Tarone (Eds.), The interaction of social and cognitive factors in SLA: Proceedings of the 1999 Second Language Research Forum. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 397-423.  (For information on the book as a whole, go to http://www.cascadilla.com/slrf1999.html.)

1998. Strategies in learning and using a second language. Harlow, England: Longman. (Re-issued by the Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press, Beijing, China, with a 40-page forward in Chinese for distribution just within the PRC, 2000.)

1998. Strategies and processes in test-taking and SLA. In L. F. Bachman & A. D. Cohen (Eds.), Interfaces between second language acquisition and language testing research (pp. 90-111). Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521649636

1998. Cohen, A. D. & Allison, K.  Bilingual processing strategies in a university-level immersion program. Ilha do Desterro, 35, 187-201.

1998. Cohen, A. D. & Weaver, S. J. Strategies-based instruction for second language learners. In W.A. Renandya & G.M. Jacobs (Eds.), Learners and language learning (pp. 1-25). Anthology Series 39. Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre.

1996. Cohen, A. D. & Hawras, S.  Mental translation into the first language during foreign-language reading. The Language Teacher, 20(2), 6-12.

1996. Cohen, A. D. & Scott, K. A synthesis of approaches to assessing language learning strategies. In R. L. Oxford (Ed.), Language learning strategies around the world: Crosscultural perspectives (pp. 89-106). (Technical Report #13). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center.

1996. Cohen, A. D., Weaver, S. J., & Li, T-Y. The impact of strategies-based instruction on speaking a foreign language. CARLA Working Paper Series #4. Minneapolis: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota.  https://carla.umn.edu/strategies/resources/SBIimpact.pdf

1994. Weaver, S. & Cohen, A. D.  Making learning strategy instruction a reality in the foreign language classroom.  In C. Klee (Ed.), Faces in a crowd:  Individual learners in multisection programs (pp. 285-323).  Boston: Heinle & Heinle.

1992. Oxford, R. & Cohen, A. D.  Language learning strategies: Crucial issues of concept and classification. Applied Language Learning, 3(1-2), 1-35.

1991. Learner strategies: The role of the teacher. Bulletin: Initial and in-service foreign language teacher education, 4, 46-58. (Greek Applied Linguistics Association). (The paper first appeared in the ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 326 046, 1990.)

1991. Strategies in second-language learning: Insights from research. In R. Phillipson, E. Kellerman, L. Selinker, M. Sharwood Smith, & M. Swain (Eds.), Foreign/second language pedagogy research: A commemorative volume for Claus Faerch (pp. 107-119). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

1990. Language learning: Insights for learners, teachers, and researchers. NY: Newbury House/Harper Collins, v+217 pp.

1990. Oxford, R., Crookall, D., Cohen, A. D., Lavine, R., Nyikos, M., & Sutter, W. Strategy training for language learners: Six situational case studies and a training model. Foreign Language Annals, 22(3), 197-216.

1988. Neubach, A., & Cohen, A. D.  Processing strategies and problems encountered in the use of dictionaries. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 10, 1-19.

1987. Research on cognitive processing in reading in Brazil. D.E.L.T.A., 3(2), 215-235.

1987. Student processing of feedback on their compositions. In A. L. Wenden & J. Rubin (Eds.), Learner strategies in language learning (pp. 57-69). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall International.

1987. Studying learner strategies: Feedback on compositions. PASAA: A Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 17(2), 29-38.

1987. The use of verbal and imagery mnemonics in second language learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 9(1), 43-61. 

1977. Successful second-language speakers: A review of research literature. Balshanut Shimushit (Journal of the Israeli Association for Applied Linguistics), 1, 3-23. Educational Resources Information Center, ED 163 753