Strategies in Autonomous Learning of Professionally Oriented English Communication

Abstract

The article presents learning strategies that affect the process of students’ autonomous learning of professionally oriented English communication. The article provides various definitions and main characteristics of learning strategies used in the process of mastering English as a foreign language, and a number of factors that influence the students’ choice of learning strategies as well. The learning strategy of autonomous learning is defined as a course of a goal-seeking and controlled behavior, which is organized in a certain way and is chosen by students to perform the tasks that they set for themselves. The study describes an explicit model of mastering strategies based on instructions, Oxford’s Strategy Training Model (STL), which was introduced in autonomous learning of professionally oriented English communication. The main steps for the model implementation are presented and conditions, which are to be followed in its application, are identified. Experimental training with the use of the mentioned model of mastering strategies based on instructions was conducted among first-year students of the Pedagogical University, who are autonomously learning English as a foreign language. The analysis of the research results confirmed the effectiveness of the chosen model of mastering strategies based on instructions in the process of autonomous learning of professionally oriented English communication. The use of this model makes the learning process more efficient as it increases the student’s motivation and self-confidence, forms autonomy and independence, shows the interaction of foreign language learning strategies with other disciplines, makes the learning process open and clear, forms responsibility, and teaches introspection and task modification.

Travesías educativas multidisciplinarias: Un enfoque científico en temáticas variadas para una educación transformadora

“…Al definir el conocimiento integrado habrá que requerir entender a que se refieren las habilidades de combinar diversos tipos de habilidades y conocimientos para poder ponerlo en práctica en diversas situaciones complejas. Es así, que se requiere utilizar los procesos mentales y colaborativos con las demás personas, para poder aprovechar su fuente académica y obtención de información (Deroncele, et al, 2021b;Dmitrenko & Nikolaeva, 2021).…”

“…Ello significa que las personas logran poner en práctica su pensamiento crítico y obtener mayor cantidad de conocimientos desde diversas fuentes de aprendizaje. Ello implica una conciencia activa y reflexiva sobre lo que se aprende (Deroncele, et al, 2021b;Dmitrenko & Nikolaeva, 2021).…”

“…Este conocimiento se aplica efectivamente y contextualizadamente a situaciones prácticas y cotidianas. De este modo, no hay lugar para la memorización, lo que se requiere es comprender y utilizar la información con un fin de empoderar al alumno académicamente (Deroncele, et al, 2021b;Dmitrenko & Nikolaeva, 2021).…”

“…Se refiere a la capacidad de combinar las diversas habilidades y conocimientos que permitan la comprensión de situaciones complejas desde los diversos procesos mentales como también la colaboración y uso de fuentes académicas (Deroncele, et al, 2021b;Dmitrenko & Nikolaeva, 2021).…”

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“…Educators need to look for the most suitable teaching method in the current learning environment through the identification of the language learning strategies (LLS), which are conscious behaviors used by language learners to foster the acquisition, storage, and use of new information, although there have been several reviews of the field's output, few have targeted research in a specific context (Thomas et al, 2021) Motivational strategies have been recognized as a crucial but insufficiently explored component in the second language (L2) learning (Lin et al, 2021;Thomas et al, 2021) Informing students about how, when and why strategies are used enables them to apply strategies in different learning tasks and transfer the implementation of strategies in new contexts and tasks, which is extremely important in autonomous learning of professionally oriented English communication for intending educators (Dmitrenko et al, 2020) cited by (Dmitrenko et al, 2021) The methodology used to achieve this goal is first looking at Scopus and Wos, a couple of databases containing a wide list of references and authors. While that was done, a research on Scimago and the ranking of the journal were the paper was placed and finally an elaboration of some seeds which later on, where loaded to R cloud and used to gather graphics to finally be interpreted.…”