A Research On The Learning Strategy Training About Sex Differences For Junior High School

The research of learning strategies in second language began in 1970s, which played an important role in language acquisition. The research of learning strategies began in 1980s in China. First, the research focused on the university students. Later, the research was expanded on middle school students and primary school students. Currently, a new round of elementary educational reform is being carried out all over China, which attaches great emphasis on developing students' awareness of using learning strategies. And the newly-issued national English Curriculum Standard (2001) definitely points out that "Helping students develop sound learning habits and form the effective learning strategies is an important task of English curriculum". As all the above reasons, it's important and necessary to teach the students use the strategies effectively in learning.This paper describes empirically and constructively the practice of the English learning strategies instruction and training program after detailed analysis of language learning strategies development theory and a survey. This paper is composed of five parts. Part One raises a problem of the grade differences because of the gender and it presents some reasons of doing the research about strategy training. Part Two presents a theoretical analysis of language learning strategies by reflecting the definition and classification. As well, it briefly introduces the history and current research on the foreign language learning strategies. Part Three is a detailed description of the means and the process about English learning strategy training. Part Four describes the results after the strategy training by comparing the data and it analyses the results. The final part summarizes both theoretically and empirically some suggestions of the English strategy training program for junior high school teachers.