Investigating Language Learning Strategies Used Among Afghan Post Graduate TESL Students When Reading Academic Texts

Language Learning Strategies Cognitive Meta-Cognitive Social Affective Compensation Memory strategies

Authors

  • Ziaurrahman Zaheer
    zzia8927@gmail.com
    English Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Humanities and Literature, Baghlan University, Baghlan, Afghanistan
  • Abdul Jalil Hashimi Pushto Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Humanities and Literature, Baghlan University, Baghlan, Afghanistan
2 March 2023

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This study aims at investigating the language learning strategies used among afghan Post Graduate Students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM when reading academic texts. Oxford's (1990) strategy inventory language learning questionnaire has been used to collect the data. The respondents of the study are thirty Afghan Post Graduate Students from Teaching English as a Second Language TESL program, including twenty eight male and two female students from the first, second, third and fourth semesters. The finding of the research indicated that Afghan TESL Post Graduate Students are high users of language learning strategies, and their most preferable strategies are metacognitive, social, cognitive affective compensation, and memory strategies.