COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES OF ROMANIAN AND TURKISH STUDENTS

Abstract

This comparative study mainly aims at describing the preferences in terms of language learning strategies of Turkish and Romanian college students at the Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey) and the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (Romania). The Oxford five-scale Likert type questionnaire, consisting of 50 items and five dimensions pertaining to the use of language learning strategies, was administered to 121 participants from the Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey and to 120 participants from the Banat University, Romania (from each of the two universities). The major targets of the study have been to identify [and compare] the learning strategies employed by students from both countries, as well as the relevance of gender and grade upon the use of strategies. The descriptive statistics indicate that the scores regarding the use of strategies are generally higher in the case of Romanian students than Turkish students. Furhermore, significant differences have been found between Romanian and Turkish students regarding the use of language learning strategies and in terms of grade levels.