FUTURE ENGLISH TEACHERS’ USE OF SELF-REGULATED LEARNING STRATEGIES IN DEVELOPING LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Abstract. One of the key objectives of education evaluation is to increase students’ capability in learning how to learn. For this purpose, teachers need to teach students the required knowledge and effective strategies. Self-regulation plays a major role in learning English in order to achieve setting goals. It is significant to monitor and control the behaviors and motivation in learning process. The purpose of this study was to explore English Language Teaching (ELT) pre-service teachers’ use of self-regulated learning strategies in developing language proficiency. The participants were 70 junior and senior students enrolled at the Foreign Languages Teaching Department of Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University in Turkestan. This study used quantitative descriptive research design. A survey method using questionnaire was used in order to collect necessary data and analyzed descriptively using Statistical Package for Social sciences (SPSS) version 23.0. The result of this study showed that ELT pre-service teachers use different types of self-regulated learning strategies in different situations. To be precise, the record keeping and monitoring strategy was found to be used more often than the strategies, such as rehearsal and memorization, seeking social assistance, goal setting and planning, seeking opportunities to practice English and self-consequences strategies. The study determines the learners who are soon-to-be English language teachers’ perceptions of using different kinds of self-regulation strategies, therefore the results might be useful in teaching English in the language classroom.