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Learning strategies can be defined as individual approaches that learners employ to accomplish academic tasks or improve their social skills. In this sense, learning strategy is a preferred choice rather than an inherent personal trait. It may be deliberately selected based upon the learner’s individual assessment of the situation, and changed if it does not work.
A learning strategy is different and should not be confused with learning style. In general, learning strategy involves situational choices of learners toward accomplishing a task. Learning style, on the other hand, is a distinguishing individual difference of learners related to the way of perceiving, processing, and interpreting learning stimuli.
There are a number of words used interchangeably in relation to the concept of learning strategies such as cognitive strategies, study...
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Simsek, A. (2012). Learning Strategies. In: Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_371
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