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Item Korean students' language learning strategy use in different contexts : ESL and EFL contexts(2005-12-24) Choi, Ji-Young; Horwitz, Elaine Kolker, 1950-The first purpose of this study is to investigate differences in language learning strategies used by Koreans in an ESL (English as a Second Language) context – in the U.S. – to those used in an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context – in Korea. The second purpose is to discover the reasons behind the different strategy use. Subjects were six students studying in undergraduate or graduate programs at the University of Texas at Austin. First, they responded to the self-report questionnaire, Oxford’s SILL (Strategy Inventory for Language Learning). Based on their responses on the SILL, forty-five minute interviews were conducted with each participant. The study found that: (1) the participants’ overall strategy use increased in the U.S., (2) the increase or decrease in strategy use in different contexts was related to the learner’s motivation, (3) their use of social and metacognitive strategies increased most in the U.S. while use of memory strategies showed the least change, (4) they knew most strategies in Korea, (5) they have realized the importance of speaking and writing in an ESL context and use strategies related to these two skills more frequently, (6) some strategies are used less in an ESL context because learners intentionally avoid them after finding them unhelpful or they do not have to try to use the strategies in different context, (7) the SILL does not reflect different contexts of different learners