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saxelmwifo enis swavlebis sakiTxebi:
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Issues of State Language Teaching;
Problems and Challenges
Cultural origins: By Oxford, cultural basis of student has influence on the mode of learning
strategies. For example, technical or other types of remembering techniques are more frequently used
by the Asian students than by other representative of different regions. Different nations have different
remembering techniques.
Attitudes and Beliefs: the affect attitudes and beliefs is especially apparent on choosing the
learning strategies. Negative attitude determines relatively shirked variety of used learning techniques
or some kind of misbalance among chosen methods and the intensity of their use.
Type of exercises: specific features of exercises help students to determine such strategy that
naturally helps students make progress in language learning.
Age and learning fee: students in different ages use diverse strategies. Moreover, learning level
determines the direction of strategies. More intensity and diversity of learning strategies are more
expected at higher level of learning at more adult age.
Style of learning: attitudes to learning often determine chosen strategy of learning. for example
those students that are characterized by analytical thinking use more intensively some techniques
such as comparing analysis, learning rules of grammar, dividing of words and expressions in small
parts etc. whereas holistic students, in the process of language learning more intensively use context
analysis of morphological units, for example guessing, scanning, forecasting etc. and try to speak on
that language if they have insufficient reserve of words. (in paraphrasing, mimics and gesticulation).
Loyal attitude towards ambiguity: those students that are not critical to ambiguity in learning
foreign language (for example, lexicographical homonyms) use absolutely different strategies compared
to those students that have difficulties with coping the problems in similar situations.
It is indisputable that all the named factors determine by its significant part determine the prioritizing
of learning strategies and the intensity of their use. But we want to draw attention on the following
two factors. These are: motivation and the style of learning. Let us discuss them briefly:
The role of motivation in relation to learning strategies
As we mentioned above, motivation plays significant role in choosing learning strategies, also it
determines their intensively and the mode of use. There are several theories on motivation in language
learning. Gardner and Lambert (1972) divide motivation in instrumental and in integral parts.
Instrumental motivation means desire coming from student that is based on the practical use of this
knowledge, for example, for traveling or business purpose. As for integral motivation its main aim is
to become part of the society which uses this language. Concentrating on this theory is important as
majority of surveyed students describe their aims of language studying for the career advance and for
integrating in the local society. Also it is interesting the second theory of motivation, which represents
the complex of factors. Oxford and Shearin (1994) by the way of analyzing twelve motivation
theory and model that covered the social physiology and social cult urological aspects as well, has
identified 6 important factors. They have pointed out six important factor on which is based the
choosing the strategy of language learning.
� Attitude, which covers the emotions towards the desired language including the society;
� Beliefs about life which includes the views of person on success, on self effectiveness and on failure;
� Aims- clearly formulated and fully perceived aims which are basic of learning process;
� Involvement- active participation of a student in learning process and the level of this participation;
� Supporting environment, the level of support from teachers and from their classmates, experience in
studying foreign languages which includes also in class and outclass different factors;
� Personal attitudes (propensities, gender, age, previous experience of language experience).
This model is also interesting for ethnical minorities in Georgia. in this case as research has
shown that attitudes and believes are especially dominant in taking decision about learning the state
language. Their aim is determined largely by their attitudes about success.
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