The Strategies that are used by Foreign Students Studying Arabic as a Second Language at the Language Center at the University of Jordan, Students of the Sixth Level as a Sample

Abstract

The study tries to focus on how the students from different cultural backgrounds learn Arabic language as a second language using their language learning strategies. Thus, a research was carried out involving a sample of 154 sixth level students at the Language Center at the University of Jordan learning Arabic as a Second Language. The research was designed to investigate the students' language learning strategy differences from the perspective of their cultural backgrounds. This research reveals some evidence of the differences in the degree of strategies used by the students. On the one hand, memory, meta-cognitive, and affective strategies were more frequently used by some of the students. On the other hand, the use of cognitive, compensation, and social strategies are higher in some of the countries than others. The data gathered from the interview shows differences in language learning strategies due to differences in their learning culture.