In this selective look at research on test-taking strategies over the last 25 years, brief
mention is made of the beginnings of test-taker strategy research, and then important …

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason
why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies …

Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve
long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language …

A formal evaluation of students listening abilities is crucial in order that language teacher's
can meet the pedagogical needs of their students. While there has been a considerable …

This book addresses fundamental questions regarding the relationships between successful
language learning and strategy use and development according to learner, situational or …

This article draws on work done in educational psychology to propose a new approach to
generating a psychometrically-based measure of second language learners' strategic …

A renewed interest in grammar from pedagogical and research perspectives has created the
need for new approaches to assessing the grammatical ability of language learners …

This article provides an introduction to the state of the art of language learning strategies in
the twenty-first century–a panoramic view of the international landscape of strategies. In the …

The book discusses vocabulary learning strategies as an integral subgroup of language
learning strategies. It attempts to integrate the approaches of theories of second language …

This article reports on an investigation into the relationship of test-takers' use of cognitive
and metacognitive strategies to the EFL (English as a foreign language) reading test …