Learning Strategy Analysis of “Excellent Learners” in Minor Courses:

A Survey Using SILL

Abstract

Through an analysis of the learning strategy characteristics of “excellent learners” in minor courses, similarities were found with intermediate to advanced Japanese learners in “cognition” and “compensation.” These hold the key as effective strategies for acquiring Japanese in less time. Appropriately combining and using “concrete efforts” in “compensation,” “planning” towards this objective in “metacognition,” and “commitment learning” in “cognition” was an effective innovation of “excellent learners.”