Social Learning Strategies

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With the progress of learner-centered education learning strategies as conscious actions taken by learners to improve their learning have been prolific field of research. However, fewresearchers haveaddressed the issue of educational and socio-contextual factors influencing the types and frequencies of social leaning strategies. This survey investigates social learning strategies in EFL context of Iranian non-governmental English language institutes. Based on social learning strategies’ questionnaire data from two different language institutes of more than 180 language learners in different levels were collected. Based on the research findings different strategies almost had different frequencies and Asking Questions was the most prevalently …show more content…

Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL), for instance, mainly developed by Halliday (Introduction to Functional Grammar3-43) emphasized on language function as a social semiotic system and a resource for meaning across variety of contexts to achieve particular goal rather than its structure. Based on Halliday in “towards a language based theory of learning” language is not a domain of human knowledge but it is the process of transforming experience into knowledge as the essential condition of …show more content…

Bandura (Social Learning Theory1-12, “Social Cognitive Theory in Cultural Context”) called this observational learning which can make three forms as: a live model including an actual one performing the behavior. Verbal instruction model emphasizes details and description of the behavior, symbolic model of observational learning involving a real or fictional model demonstrating the behavior through movies, books and other social media sources. Modeling or observational learning can happen if these features of attention, retention, reproduction and motivation are available in the learner. Bandura in “Social Cognitive Theory in Cultural Context”defining his social cognitive theory outlines the three argentic perspectives which are determined differently in different cultures as personal agency exercised individually, proxy agency done through influencing others to achieve desired outcomes and at last collective agency in which people act in groups to develop, change or

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