Researching grammar learning strategies: Combining the macro- and micro-perspective

Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory (GLSI): Another look

“…In light of the scheme's limitations, there was a need to create a more inclusive classification of GLS and to design a data collection tool on its basis. An attempt to achieve this goal, made by Pawlak (2009bPawlak ( , 2013, is described in the following section.…”

“…Moreover, it suffered from some weaknesses, tied, for example, to inadequate focus on the learner's point of view, the omission of different types of practice which can be viewed an integral component of grammar learning in most foreign language contexts, and the failure to include groups of strategies featuring prominently in major classifications of LLS (cf. Pawlak, 2012Pawlak, , 2013. However, it should be emphasized yet again that at most, the scheme was planned as a basis for international, collaborative, theoretical discussions, which could help in the eventual revision of the scheme and, after more collaboration, creation of a draft grammar strategy assessment instrument that would need extensive testing.…”

“…It was the lack of a classification of GLS that would be comprehensive and give justice to the actions and thoughts that learners actually engage in when trying to master TL grammar that prompted Pawlak (2009bPawlak ( , 2013 to develop his own categorization. This effort was guided by four overriding principles, namely: (1) the classification should be general and thus applicable to any TL rather than language-specific, (2) it should draw upon existing taxonomies of LLS, (3) it should build on existing, comprehensive divisions of methodological options in teaching TL grammar, and (4) it should be informed by the findings of existing research on GLS and attempts to categorize such strategies, such as the one by Oxford et al (2007).…”

“…First, the concept of GLS will be defined and the utility of such strategic devices will be considered, the available research will be succinctly overviewed, and the ways of examining the use of strategies for learning grammar will be evaluated. This will be followed by the presentation of a classification of GLS created by Pawlak (2009bPawlak ( , 2013 which served as a point of reference for the development of the GLSI. The remainder of the paper will be devoted to the description of a study which was conducted with the aim of validating the tool with a group of Polish university students majoring in English.…”

“…The main premise of this paper is that for such research to gain momentum, it is to necessary to create valid and reliable data collection instruments that would enable tapping the use of different types of GLS. In line with this reasoning, the article reports a study that aimed to determine the psychometric properties of the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory (GLSI), a tool constructed by Pawlak (2009bPawlak ( , 2013 on the basis of his classification of strategies for learning grammar in a second or foreign language. Exploratory factor analysis was also employed with the purpose of uncovering the underlying structure of strategic learning of grammar.…”