| Since the 1970s, western applied linguists and psychologists have shifted their focus of attention from teachers' teaching to students' learning and a great number of studies have been undertaken from the students' perspective. These studies mainly focus on: 1) strategies used by good language learners; 2) the difference between good language learners and poor language learners in strategy use; 3) the relationship between the use of strategies and second language proficiency; 4) factors affecting the use of strategies; 5) ways of strategy training and their effect. As an important aspect of second language acquisition research, language learning strategy research has drawn more and more western researchers' attention and has shown great potential.Since the mid-1980s, some Chinese researchers have begun to study language learning strategies in a foreign language setting under the Chinese culture and language background. However, research on language learning strategies in China is still in its early stage. Almost all the subjects in previous researches are English majors or non-English majors in colleges and universities. So far, there has been little research into the language learning strategies used by non-English majors at higher vocational colleges. But the number of this special group accounts for over 50% of the total number of the college students in China. So it is necessary to probe into the language learning strategies of this special group whose number is still growing and whom the researchers have been likely to neglect.The present study is meant to make an investigation of language learning strategies of non-English majors at Qingdao Vocational and Technical College. The data and information are collected through questionnaire and some interviews. Ninety nine third year non-English majors from the college participate in this investigation. SPSS 12.0 is employed to analyze the data: 1) descriptive statistics are computed to summarize the...
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