Iranian Adult and Young EFL Learners’ Perceptions of llearning Strategies and Effective Teaching in English Language

Language learning strategies are the thoughts and activities that learners employ to achieve a learning goal. The effective teaching are included of, driving toward goals, clarity make the content simple, engagement and enthusiastic in learning. Extensive research has identified strategies used by EFL learners, but limited research has been carried out with regard to the adult and young perceptions of using strategies and effective teaching. The model had been used was Knowles’ (1984). The aims of this study: Firstly, it was the identification difference between the adult and young EFL learners’ perceptions of learning strategies in learning English. Secondly, it was discovering differences between the adult and young EFL learners’ perceptions of effective teaching in language learning. Participants were 384 adult and young EFL learners in English Institute, they filled out the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) and the Effective Teaching questionnaire. After gathering data by the researchers SPSS software was used for gaining statistical information. For finding the responses of the research questions t-test had been used. Results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between the adult and young EFL learners’ perceptions of learning strategies in English language. There were significant differences between the adult and young EFL learners’ perceptions of effective teaching in English language

کلیدواژه ها:

adult learning ، effective teaching ، learning strategies ، young learning.