Grammar learning strategies in a Polish...

Grammar learning strategies (GLSs) may be defined as the thoughts and actions undertaken by language learners with some degree of consciousness for purposes of learning grammatical structures in the target language and using them appropriately, accurately, fluently, and automatically. Given that research on GLSs is practically in its infancy, with just a handful of studies dedicated to them, a large-scale research project on GLSs is conducted. To implement the project, we will apply for a Weave-UNISONO research grant for international Polish-Austrian research teams, which, in our case, consists of Jakub Bielak (Adam Mickiewicz University; lead), Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak (University of Wrocław), Carmen M. Amerstofer (University of Klagenfurt), and Verena Novak-Geiger (University of Klagenfurt). In the project, we create an instrument for measuring GLSs targeted at primary and secondary level students and university non-language majors. We collect data in Poland and Austria, including migrant and international learners, hypothesising that they employ idiosyncratic strategies given the role of L1-based strategies in grammar learning. Furthermore, the project includes a micro-scale investigation of how GLSs are used in specific language tasks, which has been investigated with respect to vocabulary learning strategies but not GLSs.