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Exploring the Relationship Between Intelligence and the Use of Language Learning Strategies

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The topic area of the present paper covers such issues as intelligence, language learning strategies (LLSs), and the relationship between intelligence scores and the use of LLSs. Individual differences affect the outcome of the process of learning a foreign language. Intelligence and LLSs are powerful factors which account for the variation in the process of language learning. In the first part of the paper, a brief overview of the notions of intelligence and LLSs is presented. In the second part, the author presents the results of a study conducted among 32 upper-intermediate students during their first year of study in different departments of Pope John Paul II State School of Higher Education in Biała Podlaska, Poland. The study examined how students with different IQ scores employ Oxford’s (1990) six groups of memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, social, and affective strategies, inside and outside the classroom. To measure a general intelligence factor, Raven’s progressive matrices were used. The main tool applied to investigate strategy use was the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) developed by Oxford (1990) on the basis of her classification of strategies. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze the collected data and differences were found in strategy use between the groups of participants with different intelligence levels.

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  1. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Larysa Grzegorzewska

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  1. Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny UAM w Kaliszu, Adam Mickiewicz University Zakład Filologii Angielskiej, Kalisz, Poland

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    Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak

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Grzegorzewska, L. (2017). Exploring the Relationship Between Intelligence and the Use of Language Learning Strategies. In: Pawlak, M., Mystkowska-Wiertelak, A., Bielak, J. (eds) Autonomy in Second Language Learning: Managing the Resources. Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07764-2_8

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