Studying Learner Strategies : Feedback on Compositions

Authors

Andrew D. Cohen

Publication Date

1987-01-01

Abstract

The paper begins by calling attention to research on learner strategies and to the significant role that verbal report data have played in such research. It is noted that information on learner strategies has developed from largely intuited lists of strategies to empirically-derived taxonomies which have as their ultimate purpose that of training learners to be more successful at language learning. The three verbal report techniques used to collect data on learner strategies—self-report, self-observation, and self-revelation—are defined and illustrated. The paper then presents two studies which employed these verbal response techniques in an effort to better understand the strategies that teachers use in giving feedback on compositions and the strategies that learners use in handling this feedback in the English-foreign-language and Portuguese-native-language classrooms respectively. The final portion of the paper deals with the strengths and weaknesses of these two studies as examples of language learning research.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.17.2.4

First Page

29

Last Page

38

Recommended Citation

Cohen, Andrew D. (1987) "Studying Learner Strategies : Feedback on Compositions," PASAA: Vol. 17: Iss. 2, Article 4.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.17.2.4
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol17/iss2/4