Investigating the Use of Grammar Learning Strategies in Hungary and Poland: A Comparative Study

<p><span style="color:rgba( 0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87 );font-family:&#39;raleway&#39; , sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb( 251 , 251 , 251 )">Project &#34;Strategie uczenia się gramatyki, wybrane różnice indywidualne a rozwój wiedzy językowej wśród osób uczących się języka obcego na poziomie zaawansowanym&#34;, number 2020/39/B/HS2/00501, National Science Centre, Poland. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.04px">Although there is consensus that second language grammar instruction is</span><span style="font-size:12.04px">needed, some controversial issues remain. Whatever instructional options are </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">selected, it is vital that they allow the development of not only explicit knowledge </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">but also implicit or at least automatized knowledge that can be used </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">in real-time interaction. Since this aim is difficult to achieve, students need </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">to learn this subsystem on their own and this process can be aided by adept </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">use of grammar learning strategies (GLS). However, research in this area is </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">scarce, existing tools have not been validated in different contexts, and no </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">cross-country comparisons have been made. The study addresses these gaps </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">by examining the use of GLS by university students majoring in English in </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">Hungary (N &#61; 205) and Poland (N &#61; 173). Data were collected by means of </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">a standardized questionnaire and subjected to principal component analysis </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">and correlational analysis. Independent- and paired-samples t-tests as well as </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">regression analyses were also run. Some differences were found between the </span><span style="font-size:12.04px">two contexts but overall patterns of GLS use were strikingly similar.</span></p>