Topics in Language Learning Strategies

Course ID:  M9D020YO 

Credits: 3

Course Prerequisites: None

Course Description and Goals:

This course introduces students to research on language learning strategies. We will discuss current trends and controversial issues most important to strategies for learning a second/foreign (L2) language. Both theoretical issues (e.g., definition, classification, and theoretical underpinnings) and pedagogical issues (e.g., teachability of strategies and the relationship of strategies to the four skills and individual-difference variables) will be discussed. Classroom discussions and presentations will focus on strategy research in the mid-70s (e.g., Rubin, 1975), the mid-80s (e.g., O’Malley, Chamot, Stewner-Manzanares, Küpper, & Russo, 1985), the 1990s (e.g., MacIntyre & Noels, 1996), and the new millennium (e.g., Ardasheva & Tretter, 2013; Griffiths, 2015; Oxford, 2017; Thomas & Rose, 2018). How the concept of L2 strategies is compatible with the concept of self-regulation will be highlighted throughout this course. Suggested papers for classroom discussions and presentations.

Schedule Type:  

Group discussion, online discussion, oral presentation, & written assignments (reaction papers).