{"id":593,"date":"2018-07-17T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T06:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/?p=593"},"modified":"2018-07-18T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T00:45:49","slug":"strategies-inventory-for-language-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/strategies-inventory-for-language-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies Inventory for Language Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Purpose:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To assess how often learners employ specific language learning strategies.<\/span> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.educ.ualberta.ca\/staff\/olenka.bilash\/Best%20of%20Bilash\/SILL%20survey.pdf\">https:\/\/sites.educ.ualberta.ca\/staff\/olenka.bilash\/Best%20of%20Bilash\/SILL%20survey.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enl.auth.gr\/gala\/14th\/Papers\/English%20papers\/Kazamia.pdf\">http:\/\/www.enl.auth.gr\/gala\/14th\/Papers\/English%20papers\/Kazamia.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Short description:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A survey with 50 questions to gauge language learning strategy use.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sample questions:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instructions: Please read each statement and fill in the bubble of the response (1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) that tells HOW TRUE THE STATEMENT IS. <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Never or almost never true of me <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Usually not true of me <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Somewhat true of me <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Usually true of me <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Always or almost always true of me<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer in terms of how well the statement describes you. Do not answer how you think you should be, or what other people do. There are no right or wrong answers to these statements. <\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sample questions: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I give myself a reward or treats when I do well in SL (second language). <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I use rhymes to remember new SL words. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To understand unfamiliar SL words, I make guesses.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Paid or free:\u00a0<\/b>Free<\/p>\n<p><b>Reliability\/validity measures:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Validity:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Results indicate that the SILL manages to accurately record almost half of the strategies reported in interviews while the remainder consists of strategies that are either variations of SILL items or entirely different strategies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Setting:\u00a0<\/b>Open<\/p>\n<p><b>Stakeholder(s):\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self-directed learners<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teachers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning advisors<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Type of measurement:\u00a0<\/b>Questionnaire<\/p>\n<p><b>Possible uses:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awareness-raising<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self-monitoring<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Ease of implementation:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy. 50 items, est. 40 min.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Advantages:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy to answer and administer <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good for comparing students with themselves longitudinally<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Available in a number of languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian and in Greek<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drawbacks:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reliability issue between learners due to nature of self-assessment\/self-report<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does not allow for creativity in answers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Studies this has been used in:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/0346251X9400047A\">http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/0346251X9400047A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose:\u00a0To assess how often learners employ specific language learning strategies. Sources:\u00a0 https:\/\/sites.educ.ualberta.ca\/staff\/olenka.bilash\/Best%20of%20Bilash\/SILL%20survey.pdf http:\/\/www.enl.auth.gr\/gala\/14th\/Papers\/English%20papers\/Kazamia.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-strategies","category-questionnaire","category-self-determination-theory","category-self-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuis.kandagaigo.ac.jp\/rilae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}