LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY A NON-ENGLISH MAJOR LEARNER TO COMPOSE A WRITTEN TEXT: AN INTERVIEW STUDY
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This article studies the learning strategies used by a Vietnamese learner of English when producing an English written text. The participant was asked to write a reflection on her present life and study with some suggested ideas provided. An interview was set and recorded after the participant had completed the task to clarify different learning strategies that she had employed in writing. The data collected from the interview were analysed based on O’Malley’s (1990) classification of metacognitive, cognitive, and social affective strategies. The participant revealed preferable uses of metacognitive and social affective strategies, but little use of cognitive strategies. This study will be helpful to the identification of similar groups of Vietnamese female learners of English, taking into account of their learning strategies.
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