Good Language Learner- Rubin 1975

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What the "Good Language Learner" Can Teach Us Author(s): Joan Rubin Reviewed work(s): Source: TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Mar., 1975), pp. 41-51 Published by: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3586011 . Accessed: 06/02/2012 03:41
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TESOL Quarterly Vol. 9, No. 1 March 1975

What the "Good Learner" Can TeachUs* Language
Joan Rubin The differentialsuccess of second/foreign language learners suggests a need to examine in detail what strategies successful language learners employ. An indication is given of what these strategies might consist of and a list of several widely recognizedgood learnerstrategiesis given. In addition to the need for research on this topic, it is suggested that teacherscan already begin to help their less successful students improve their performance paying more attention to learner strategiesalready by seen as productive. It is common knowledge that everyone learns his first language with a fair degree of success, the reason being that everyone is born with the ability to learn a language and then grows up in a community in which he needs to function to some degree through language, the rules of which are imparted to him in the

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