What Can We Learn from Good Moroccan Learners of English?

Abstract

One of the primary concerns of language teachers is to prepare their students to be life-long learners. To achieve this, they have numerous ways among which we can cite to instruct and train them on language learning strategies. Another considerable body of research has investigated these strategies employed by good language learners. This article, therefore, aims to investigate and explore how Moroccan good language learners successfully learned English. The three case studies are Moroccan students following their Master studies in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Computing in the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Beni Mellal. The find out what language learning strategies good Moroccan language learners use, the study adopted, in addition to informal observation, a questionnaire wherein these three participants: two males and one females, after being informally observed, responded to the use of multiple language learning strategies reported in the literature. The findings suggested that the three participants’ language learning strategies are diverse and that there were their own other creative ways of picking up English. Training and instructing ‘ineffective’ learners who belong to the same context going through nearly the same circumstances can bring about good language learning outcomes.