Students’ Attitudes Towards Strategies Use In Learning English As A Foreign Language. A Case Study Of The Algerian Teachers’ Training School

Résumé: This paper reports the findings of the study that assesses strategies use among Algerian Teachers’ Training School Students (ENSB) who are studying English as a foreign language. This study seeks to investigate students’ attitudes to language learning strategies. The two main questions addressed are: what are Algerian students’ attitudes towards strategies use? And which types of strategy are most frequently used among these students? To answer these questions, a total of 85 students enrolled in third year responded to 50 items in an inventory for language learning strategies. The Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) has been used to gather data from the participants. The results revealed that the participants highly employ the metacognitive strategies, moderately the cognitive, the compensation strategies, the social, affective, and lastly memory strategies. The implications of the results are that the teachers are required to consider their students’ strategies use in their teaching practices in order to implement a more effective teaching.

Publié dans la revue: الباحث