Language Learning Strategies and English Proficiency of Taiwan Language College Students

語言學習策略與英語能力相關性之探討

陳美華(Margaret Mei-Hua Chen)

《語文與國際研究》 4期 (2007/12) Pp. 49-72

https://doi.org/10.7084/LIS.200712.0049

摘要

本文研究台灣「文藻外語學院」大學部各系學生及專科部學生所使用的語言學習策略與英語能力的相關性。研究對象包含2004學年度入學之大學新生，以及所有通過「大學校院英語能力測驗」二技與五專之學生，合計1090人。本研究以統計軟體SPSS 10.0進行分析。
結果顯示：文藻學生最常選擇的語言學習策略依序是「後設認知」、「認知」及「補償」策略，其次是「社交」策略與「情感」策略，而最少使用的是「記憶」策略；研究中也發現語言學習策略使用頻率較少之系別，其英語能力測驗成績表現上顯著低於其他系別，顯示語言學習策略與語言能力呈現正相關。
作者建議，可將英語能力測驗成績表現高的學生所常用的語言學習策略，運用於大學新生的語言課程以提升其學習效率；同時，在各外語系之資源教室，設計一套語言學習策略評量，俾使學生根據自己學習的特性及傾向，找出最有效的語言學習策略，進而提高語言能力。
本文最後根據同時學習英日語之學生其語言學習策略使用情形，及對其英語能力的影響，提供作為未來研究之建議。

關鍵字

語言學習策略 ； 大專校院英語能力測驗 ； 英語文能力 ； 英語畢業門檻 ； 文藻外語學院

並列摘要

The study reported in this paper was designed to identify and quantify the use of language learning strategies applied by junior college and college students with different majors and English language proficiency levels at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The total number of students participating in the study was 1,090. They were freshmen enrolling in the 2004 academic year, and students from five-year junior college and two-year college who had achieved the Graduation English Language Proficiency Benchmarks (GELPB) set by the college based on the College Student English Proficiency Test (CSEPT). Data from the study were analyzed using standard SPSS processes.
The results showed that the students participating in the study used meta-cognitive, cognitive and compensation strategies most frequently. Next, were social and affective strategies. Memory strategy was used the least. Significantly, the study also indicated that language learning strategies are positively correlated with language proficiency. Participants, whose CSEPT scores were the lowest, used language learning strategies the least.
As a result of the study, it is proposed that the most frequently used language learning strategies of the high English proficiency achievers be incorporated in freshmen language classes to enhance learning effectiveness. Meanwhile a language-learning-strategy training program can be developed for each of Wenzao's language learning resources center, so that students can first determine their own most effective strategies for learning and, in a second stage, learn to maximise the use of those strategies to enhance their own learning. Finally, further research concerning the effects of strategy used in learning both English and Japanese at the same time and its influences on English proficiency will follow.

並列關鍵字

language learning strategies ； College Student English Proficiency Test ； English Language Proficiency ； Graduation English Language Proficiency Benchmarks ； Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages

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