This study intended to investigate the language learning strategies used by learners
of English as a foreign language, aiming to find the amount of strategies and the domain
differences of the strategies used; to reveal the link between strategy use and success
levels; and to find out the difference in strategy use between genders and its influence on
their achievement in English.
257 (153 male, 104 female) students from Atılım University English Preparatory
School participated in the study. At the time of the study all the participants were in the
same proficiency level, and were distributed to different classes of the same level.
The data were gathered through strategy inventory for language learning (SILL) of
Oxford (1990), which was translated to Turkish by Cesur and Fer (2007).
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