An Investigation Of The Language Learning Strategies Used By High And Low Achievers Of Grade Twelve Students At Kombolcha General Preparatory School

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the language learning strategies of high achieverrnand low achiever students. The focus was to see similarities and differences behveen highrnachiever and low achiever students' use of various hJPes of learning strategies.rnTo this end, fifo) students were selected (25 high achievers and 25 low achievers) usingrnpurposive sampling. To measure the students' language learning strategt) use, Oxford's Strategt)rnInventon) for Language Learning (SILL) was employed with some modification. This 49 itemrnquestionnaire was administered for the selected sample students. Interview was also conductedrnwith ten of the sample students.rnData obtained through the questionnaire were analyzed using Statistical Package for SocialrnSciences (SPSS) version-20. The descriptive statistics such as mean values, standard deviations,rnand Independent T-test were considered in discussion. The t-test (with Significant differencernlevel P

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