Strategies for Better Learning of English Grammar: Chinese vs Thais Part 4

Hello everyone, it's me again. I'd like to continue discussing about my next part of Journal I have read for these past few weeks. Anyway, we've come to the latest part of the journal, conclusion.

Let's get started!

There are 2 major points in the conclusion,

1.    Major Findings.

In this part, the researchers talked about the result from the research they had done.

·      In term of social and affective strategy categories, the Thais were highly better than the Chinese, specifically in terms of teachers and better learners for grammar learning methods and self-encouragement and relaxation.

·      In the cognitive and memory, the Thais preferred to use tables to learn new grammar rules, and the Chinese preferred note taking. And in the memory strategies, the Thais relied on mental images to retain their grammar knowledge, while the Chinese depended more on the revision.

·      And in the metacognitive category, it showed that the Thais made a highly more frequent access to the receptive skills to learn new grammar rules, while the Chinese made more effort on the lesson preview.

2.    Implications

One of the implication from the researchers is grammar learning strategies recommendations.

There are 4 grammar learning strategies we could apply to develop our grammar based on the results of this study.

a)    The metacognitive strategies, reinforcing knowledge of the grammar rules through both the receptive and the productive skills, also monitoring our mistakes.

b)   The memory strategies, to remember the rules of grammar, we can use the mind-mapping and the mental image techniques.

c)    The social strategies, learning how to learn grammar from teachers and better learners.

d) The cognitive strategies, try to understand English grammar through the comparison with L1 and summarize the acquired grammar knowledge in tables or diagrams.

Well, the suggestions are quite simple, right?

I hope it would help you guys in learning grammar.

Aye aye! Since that’s the last part of this journal, it’s time to say good bye! 

See y’all in my next project!