Research into language learner strategies has the fundamental goal of improving the teaching and learning of second languages. This book explores the notion that the reason some learners of second languages excel and others struggle lies in what the learners themselves do-the strategies they bring to language learning and to language use. Name of series: Oxford Applied Linguistics.

Claims and critiques / Mike Grenfell and Ernesto Macaro -- Coming to terms with language learner strategies : surveying the experts / Andrew D. Cohen -- Bridging the gap between psychological and sociocultural perspectives on L2 learner strategies / Rebecca L. Oxford and Karen Schramm -- Applying strategies to contexts : the role of individual, situational, and group differences / Osamu Takeuchi, Carol Griffiths, and Do Coyle -- Research methods in strategy research : re-examining the toolbox / Cynthia White, Karen Schramm, and Anna Uhl Chamot -- L2 grammar strategeis : the second Cinderella and beyond / Rebecca L. Oxford and Kyoung Rang Lee with Gloria Park -- Intervening in the use of strategies / Joan Rubin ... [et al.] -- An introduction to systematic reviewing / Ernesto Macaro and Andrew D. Cohen -- A review of listening strategies : focus on sources of knowledge and on success / Ernesto Macaro, Suzanne Graham, and Robert Vanderplank -- A review of reading strategies : focus on the impact of first language / Lynn Erler and Claudia Finkbeiner -- A review of oral communication strategies : focus on interactionist and psycholinguistic perspectives / Yasuo Nakatani and Christine Goh -- A review of writing strategies : focus on conceptualizations and impact of first language / Rosa M. Manchón, Julio Roca de Larios, and Liz Murphy -- A review of vocabulary learning strategies : focus on language proficiency and learner voice / Martha Nyikos and May Fan.