Three Factors Affecting Language Learning: Grammar Learning Strategies, Self-efficacy, and Learner Autonomy

İrem Görkem Çetinkaya,Filiz Yalçin Tilfarlioğlu

doi:10.13189/ujer.2020.080721

İrem Görkem Çetinkaya, Filiz Yalçin Tilfarlioğlu

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https://doi.org/10.13189/ujer.2020.080721

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This study mainly investigated (a) the relationship among grammar learning strategies, self-efficacy and learner autonomy and (b) their effects on academic success. Investigating all of them gives some clues for classroom practice. The study was conducted at Gaziantep University Foreign Languages Higher School with the participation of 350 students from four different proficiency levels (elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate and upper-intermediate). The data were collected through a questionnaire that has three parts with 65-items. The data collected through the questionnaires were analyzed by means of the quantitative method including calculating descriptive statistics. According to analysis results, there is a positive relationship between grammar learning strategies and academic success (r=.185 p>.01), self-efficacy and academic success (r=.455 p>.01) and learner autonomy and academic success (r=.120 p>.01). When grammar learning strategies, self-efficacy and learner autonomy were investigated together, it was observed that there was a statistically positive relationship with academic success (r=.472 p>.01).

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Learning languages is very important for many purposes
This article is responsible for reporting the relationship between grammar learning strategies, self-efficacy, learner autonomy and academic success
The other aim of this article is to show to what extent the use of grammar learning strategies, self-efficacy and learner autonomy account for academic achievement

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Learning languages is very important for many purposes. The most popular of other languages is English. Learning grammar gives learners to use the language efficiently and correctly. Learners use some techniques when they learn a language. These techniques are called as grammar learning strategies that make learning process more organized and correct (Abri, 2017). Grammar can’t be taught separately from language. It is one of the most important factors in language learning process. Even if grammar rules by themselves are not enough to learn and speak a language fluently, they have an important role in

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