Learning Strategies Adopted by the Introvert Learners in the English Classroom

Abstract

The present study entitled "Learning Strategies Adopted by the Introvert Learners in the English Classroom" aimed to find out the learning strategies adopted by the introvert learners in the English classroom, educational status of introvert learner in the classroom and outside the classroom and pedagogical implications. For the completion of above all objectives, I adopted both primary and secondary sources of data. I used two sets of questionnaire one for students and another for teachers and an observation form for data collection. The data collected from forty students, ten teachers and class observation of 135 students. I applied purposive non- random sampling procedure to select school, class and teachers. Minimum two to maximum twenty- seven years, experienced teachers were involved in the research. Altogether forty introvert students were involved as a sampled population in this study. Altogether four groups of two schools participated in this study. Class 11 was my study class. Based on the collected data, the strategies adopted by the introvert learners are shown in different statistical tools i.e. percentage, pie chart, tables, etc. Among other findings, it has found that students used meta-cognitive and cognitive strategies. They prefer to read books and want to self-reading activities. Their educational status was satisfactory but not as good as extrovert learner. This study is divided into four main chapters and sub-chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study, general background, description about learning strategies, information about introvert learners, review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter is concerned with the methodology. It consists of the sources of data, sampling procedure, tools of data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of the data. Analysis and interpretations are shown in different tables, charts or percentages. The fourth chapter is concerned with the findings and recommendations. In the findings, I have written several points what I found from the study and in the recommendation I have given some suggestions and those suggestions are based on the total research study. Finally, I have attached some appendixes. There are seven appendixes and sample of the observation checklist, questionnaire and references are attached with this thesis.