Language Learning Strategies of Good Language Learners (GLLs)


(1) GLLs find an appropriate style of learning.

(2) GLLs involve themselves in the language learning process.

(3) GLLs develop an awareness of language as both system and
communication.

(4) GLLs pay constant attention to expanding their language knowledge.

(5) GLLs develop the L2 as a separate system.

(6) GLLs take into account the demands that L2 learning imposes.


[taken from a research study carried out at Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education]
(Source: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics: A Handbook
for Language Teaching, Edited by Keith Johnson and Helen Johnson, pp.
141-42)