The Relationship among Learning Strategy, Autonomy and Language Proficiency of Chinese EFL Learners

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research

مقاله 2، دوره 6، شماره 23، اسفند 2018، صفحه 23-34   

نوع مقاله: Research Papers

نویسندگان

Jianfeng Cheng^{* 1}؛ Gerard Sagaya Raj²؛ Joanna Tan Tjin Ai²

¹Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, Perak, Malaysia

²Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Perak, Malaysia

چکیده

This study attempted to investigate the relationship among learning strategy, autonomy and language proficiency of Chinese university EFL students. To achieve this objective, purposive sampling and cluster sampling methods were used to select 422 non-English major students as participants in three universities, Henan province, China. Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) and Xu’s (2004) Learner Autonomy Questionnaire (LAQ) were adopted to investigate the participants’ strategy use and learner autonomy, respectively. The participants’ language proficiency was measured by their CET-4 scores. Results of the Pearson correlation analysis indicated that there existed interrelationships among the three variables: learning strategy and learner autonomy were significantly and positively correlated with each other, and both of them had significant positive relationships with language proficiency. Multiple Regressions Analysis results suggested that learner autonomy could best predict the variance in language proficiency. Pedagogical suggestions are offered to English language teachers in assisting their students with regards to the improvement of language proficiency.

کلیدواژه‌ها

learning strategy؛ language proficiency؛ learner autonomy؛ China؛ EFL learner