Implicaciones educativas de la investi­gación sobre estrategias de aprendizaje de segundas lenguas

Abstract

Learning strategies, as an important individual variable, are becoming central in second language acquisition research. First, this paper presents a brief review of the first strate­gies studies highlighting the lack of a coherent theoretical frame for the investigation of learning strategies. Then, on the basis of a review of the present conception of learning strategies and the main cha­racteristics of these, we advo­cate for the introduction of integrated and informed stra­tegy training in language pro­ grammes. This, we maintain, can be done through the analy­sis of the strategies implicit in the materials currently used in the promotion of language acquisition. Nine axioms for successful strategy training are also presented.