GLOBALLANGUAGE
Interviews
CENTER
BACKGROUND
In the Global Language Centre, there is one
course of 20 students (13 females and 7 males).
They are between 18 to 20 years old and their
proficiency level in English is A1. Teachers are
concerned about the results obtained by most of
the students since they discovered the results
are not the expected ones.
AIM
To find out the learning strategies employed by
‘successful learners’ during a two-month course,
so that the teacher will be able to exploit such
strategies among all the students.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What learning strategies are used by ‘successful
learners’ in our classes?
Do our learners use English outside the
classroom?
Do they feel good about learning English?
APPROACH
We conducted our investigation under the ‘Action
Research’ approach because of its usefulness in
solving an immediate problem. Particularly in the
Global Language Centre
METHODOLOGY
We made use of two research techniques.
A. Classroom Observation
Listening attentively
Taking notes
Asking questions
Using the target language
B.
Qualitative method
schedule
Semi-structures in terms of
understanding how interventions work
and how they could be improved.
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
Due to the use of the two research
techniques previously mentioned, we
were able to find out what strategies
our students made use of to develop
the level of proficiency in the
language:
 Actions they took outside the
language classroom.
 Discover their feelings and emotions
towards the language.
FINDINGS
 Students enjoy listening to
music
 They talk to each other outside
the classroom
 They prefer working on problem
solving tasks.
 They find homework useful to
reinforce what they learn.
 They do not like reading.
CONCLUSION
Even though we did not find anything
particularly relevant or new, we have
become aware of the importance that
teachers should promote different
learning strategies so that students
can become successful learners of
English.