A Survey of Learning Strategies for Engineering Students with Different Personality

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The study aims to find out similarities or differences of learning strategies used by introvert and extrovert students in the process of learning English language. The survey instrument included a questionnaire and all the participants are engineering students in Changchun University. There are altogether 32 valid questionnaires, including 15 introvert students and 17 extrovert students. The results show that both introvert students and extrovert students of engineering sometimes use the English language learning strategies at medium level. Introvert students use compensation strategies better than extrovert students. Extrovert students use memory strategies, metacognitive strategies and social strategies better than introvert students. Both introvert students and extrovert students equally employ cognitive strategies and affective strategies.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1065-1069)

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2445-2448

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December 2014

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