Linguocultural approach as means of managing learning strategies when teaching a foreign language

Department of Romano-Germanic languages and Methods of Teaching them Naberezhnye Chelny State Pedagogical University, Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia

Abstract

The article deals with the survey conducted upon the basis of the Pedagogical University with the students learning English as a foreign language. The study is aimed at finding the correlation between applying the linguocultural approach and improving students’ leaning strategies implication. Thus, the study defined the positive impact of the linguocultural approach upon the frequency of learning strategies usage by the students. The study deals with such types of learning strategies as common, metacognitive, affective, and social strategies implemented by the students learning English grammar and phonetics. The authors of the article used a questionnaire method to assert the fact that linguocultural approach has positive impact upon the development of the students’ learning strategies depending upon their gender and national peculiarities.