A Study On Spoken Chinese Learning Strategies Of Foreign Students From Arabic Countries And The Relationship Between Language Learning Strategies And Language Performance

Chinese has become one of the most important international language with the development of Chinese political and economic condition.With the passage of time the need to study Chinese language in Morocco is increasing as in other Arab countries.Arabic students who want to learn Chinese language have almost identical goal by improving their oral/spoken Chinese language skills,as it is been proved by some researches that Arabic students for learning Chinese language that their spoken skills is way better than writing or listening skills.Most of Arab students in China focusing to improve oral skills for Chinese language.However,there are many problems in the process of learning Chinese.Different factors involved such as learning abilities and strategies in practice and communication level of the students.If we do not understand the use of Chinese language learning strategies among Arabic students,we cannot provide the aims of teaching methods,thus affecting the learners' expectations.This topic is based on the investigation and interview of Chinese language learners' with Arabic students and to know the strategies of learning the language while they learning it.The test of Arabic student's oral ability emphasize the relationship between the technique of learning and their spoken language ability in Chinese.The study focuses on the use of Chinese language in learning techniques,and our main reference is the “strategy inventory for Language Learning”(SILL)compiled by Oxford(1990).All the collected data were studied by “SPSS” statistical analysis software and conducted a descriptive statistical analysis.The thesis comprises of five chapters.The first chapter,is the introduction,including the reasons and causes of the topic selection,the research significance,research purposes,research focus,difficulties,and research methods.The second chapter,addresses the definition,classification and improving the research of the second language learning strategies,the literature review at home and abroad,then the research methods and so on.The third chapter,is declaring the use of Chinese language learning strategies for Arab students.This part indicates the design and usage of the questionnaire.After the questionnaire was collected,the author carried on the data processing and the information which sorted to the questionnaires,after that processed on the combined data through the “SPSS” Statistical Product and Service Solutions.Through the 86 valid samples,the study analysed general situation and individual factors of the usage of Chinese spoken language learning strategies.The fourth chapter,is about Arab student's oral Chinese ability test results and analysis oral Chinese fluency and accuracy of test design.And this chapter is relates to the relations between language learning strategies and spoken abilities in Chinese language.The five chapter,is the conclusion,which summarizes the main results of this paper,and some advises for Arabic students who love to study Chinese language.The results show that the use of these five strategies;compensation,memory,cognitive,metacognitive and memory respectively are the highest.According to the mentioned questionnaire which been filled by Arabic students,the statement for the evaluation of emotional strategy was clearly showed up as "I sometimes do this",the reason why the use of the statement of emotional strategy relatively been used less than the other aforementioned 5 strategies.Obviously,this tells that the Arab students in the process of learning Chinese having have shortages of using emotional strategy for learning the language.Also the results of the data analysing and showing that girls have higher language skills than boys.