Learning strategies adopted by secondary level Doteli learners of English

Abstract

The present study entitled 'Learning Strategies Adopted by Secondary Level Doteli Learners of English ' is an attempt to find out the strategies adopted by Doteli learners of English. For this research, I selected forty students from four different schools of Doti district. I used non-random purposive sampling procedure to select schools and simple random sampling procedure to select the students. I used a set of questionnaire for the students to collect the data. The obtained data from the informants were analyzed and interpreted descriptively using simple statistical tool viz. tables. On the basis of the data interpretation, it was found that students used all the three types of strategies i.e. cognitive, metacognitive and socio-affective. They used used mainly, note taking, imagery, memorization, deducing, under cognitive strategies. Under metacognitive strategies, they used selective attention, planning, evaluation mainly. Under socio-affective strategies, they used questioning for clarification. Among the given three types of strategies, cognitive strategies were used in a greater extent in comparison to metacognitive and socio-affective strategies. This research consists of five chapters. First introductory part includes general background, statement of problems, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of study, delimitations of study and operational definitions of key terms. The second chapter consists of review of related theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the study and conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter is related with methodology which includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, tools and techniques of data collection, data collection procedure and analysis and interpretation procedure. Similarly chapter four consists of analysis and interpretations of results and summary of findings. Finally, the fifth or last chapter deals with conclusions and recommendations of the study followed by reference and appendices.