Strategies of Learning English as a Foreign Language at Faculty of Technical Sciences

AbstractThe main objective of this research was to investigate students’ strategies in language learning and measure them in relation to five research questions. The adopted measurement instrument developed by Oxford (1990) was applied to the sample of students learning English as a foreign language at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad. It was found that students’ gender and proficiency in English affect their strategy use. Moreover, students’ field of study also showed an effect on the result. The influence of self-perceptions of motivation and the effects of course status (required vs. elective) and years of study were examined as well