The Good Language Learner

By Haifa Alroqi, N. Naiman. 2003

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A Chinese Conceptualisation of Willingness to Communicate in ESL (2003, background): “Good language learners are supposed to be risk-takers (Beebe, 1983; Naiman et al., 1975; Rubin, 1975).”
Is multilingualism linked to a higher tolerance of ambiguity?* (2012, background): “Tolerance of Ambiguity has also been identified as a possible characteristic of the “good language learner” in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research because such a learner is “comfortable with uncertainty . . . and willing to try out his guesses” (Rubin, 1975, p. 45).”
Strategy Knowledge and Perceived Strategy Use: Singaporean Students’ Awareness of Listening and Speaking Strategies (2006, background): “Since the 1970s, categories of strategies for language learning in general have been documented (O’Malley & Chamot, 1990; Oxford, 1990; Rubin, 1975) with a view to boosting learning outcomes by empowering learners, poor achievers in particular, with strategies conducive to success.”
The Effects of Awareness‐Raising Training on Oral Communication Strategy Use (2005, methodology): “INITIAL RESEARCH INTO LEARNING strategies sought to identify the characteristics of good language learners (Rubin, 1975; Wong-Fillmore, 1979).”
ISSUES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGY RESEARCH AND TEACHING (2004, methodology): “…on language learning strategies investigates the feasibility of helping students become more effective language learners by teaching them some of the learning strategies that descriptive studies have identified as characteristic of the “good language learner” (Rubin, 1975; 1981; Stern, 1975).”
Assessment of Language Learning Strategies Used by Palestinian EFL Learners (2005, background): “Chamot (1987), Naiman, Frohlich, Stern, and Todesco (1978), Rubin (1975), Stern (1975), and Stevick (1989) identified the strategies that successful language learners employ to facilitate learning the L2.”
Strategic Processing in Grammar Learning: Do Multilinguals Use More Strategies? (2007, background): “Research into the ‘good language learner’ and the strategies they use has been a long-standing area of interest in language research (see Naiman et al., 1978; O’Malley & Chamot, 1990; Oxford, 1990; Rubin, 1975; Stevick, 1989; Wenden & Rubin, 1987).”
Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety of Arab learners of English: The effect of personality, linguistic and sociobiographical variables (2015, background): “SLTA was defined as feeling comfortable with uncertainty and displaying a willingness to try out guesses (Rubin, 1975, p. 45).”
Improving High School English Language Learners' Second Language Listening Through Strategy Instruction (2003, background): “The “good language learner” studies of Naiman, Frohlich, Stern, and Todesco (1978) and Rubin (1975) demonstrated that successful learners employ strategies while learning and using a second language.”
The effect of keeping vocabulary notebooks on vocabulary acquisition (2009, background): “While many researchers have studied, described, and categorized language learning strategies (Naiman et al., 1978; Rubin et al., 1987; O’Malley and Chamot, 1990; Oxford, 1990), Schmitt (1997) has described a taxonomy of learning strategies specifically aimed at learning vocabulary.”
Gender Differences in Motivation to Learn French (2006, background): “Those who can tolerate ambiguity are more likely to be motivated and to persist than those who cannot (Naiman et al., 1978).”