日本の英語学習者の認知方略使用構造について

抄録

Last year the author's research team investigated 3587 college students from 13 universities and stated that one of the major factors which differentiate the upper from the middle and lower percentile groups was the use of cognitive strategies. This year using the same data as the last year, the author investigated the relation between their use of cognicative strategy and their intrinsic values among Japanese college students. The result shows that the cognitive strategic competence of the best performers and the middle group students are developed enough but the lowest students have not developed their cognitive competence and that the number of the intrinsic values is different among the groups. The higher the English proficiency of the students becomes, the more the number of their intrinsic values becomes. After analyzing the data, some coping instructions are suggested and educational implications are discussed.