A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL EFL LEARNERS

Abstract

A b s t r a c tThis paper addresses the difference in use of language learning strategies between bilingual and monolingual English as foreign language learners (EFL).The study was conducted among 42 monolingual Croatian and 42 bilingual students of the University of Pula who are studying English as a foreign language. The data were analyzed by using the t-test. The results of the research suggested that bilingual students reported higher usage of learning strategies than their monolingual colleges with memory and metacognitive strategies reaching statistically significant level.The findings of this study led to some suggestions to enhance students' use of learning strategies, increase their vocabulary size, and subsequently improve their English learning.