《Focusing on Learning Styles and Strategies：A Diary Study》.pdf

Language Learning 52:2, June 2002, pp. 401–438 Focusing on Learning Styles and Strategies: A Diary Study in an Immersion Setting Joan G. Carson Georgia State University Ana Longhini Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto This diary study focuses on the second language learn- ing styles and strategies of the diarist/researcher in a naturalistic setting, utilizing categories from Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning and the Style Analysis Survey. The analysis of diary entries indi- cates that the learner’s learning style remained relatively constant throughout her time in the language immersion Joan G. Carson is a professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Ana M. Longhini is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Language at National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina, where she lec- tures in the English Applied Linguistics MA program. This is an expanded version of a paper given at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, March 6–9, 1999, in Stamford, Connecticut. The authors would like to thank Nick Ellis and the three anonymous Language Learning reviewers for their careful reading of the manuscript, as well as Maria Ines Valsecchi for her invaluable contributions to our thinking and our work on this project. Correspondence concerning this article may be sent to Joan G. Carson, department of Applied Linguistics/ESL,Georgia State University,University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303. Internet: jgcarson@ 401 402 Language Learning Vol. 52, No. 2 situation, but her strategies, while consistent with