Socioeconomic Status and Language Learning Strategies

Language learning strategies and factors affecting them have been under close scrutiny since 1975. Meanwhile in this process factors remaining somehow intact are socioeconomic status ones. Thus, this study investigated the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) of Iranian EFL learners and their use of language learning strategies (LLS). The participants of the study filled out two instruments, the 50-item Strategy Inventory for Language Learning and the standard questionnaire of determining the socioeconomic status of students residing in Tehran. Then a MANOVA was conducted to reveal the results. The results showed that language learners' socioeconomic status influences the frequency and selection of language learners' strategies.

Autorentext

Ahmad Mohseni is an Associate professor of TEFL at Islamic Azad University,South Tehran Branch and has been teaching English Language for more than 32 years at various levels.He is the author of four books and has published several scholarly articles in national and international Academic Journals.