APPLYING STRATEGY INVENTORY FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND THE MOTIVATED STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING QUESTIONNAIRE IN ASSESSING LEARNING STRATEGIES AND MOTIVATION OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS

This study investigated the possibility of using the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) and the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) as instruments of measuring Iranian EFL learners' motivation and their use of language learning strategies. The MSLQ was of exceptional interest because it contains both a fundamental motivation subscale and a motivation/language learning strategies subscale. Participants of this study were 210 EFL learners who were studying English as a Foreign Language at various EFL institutions and/or schools in Iran. Participants provided general demographic information and completed both scales in a counterbalanced manner. Findings depicted that while the two scales have some parallel content; the scales do not overlap completely and measured two discrete indices to some extent. Also, a temperate correlation between MSLQ learning strategies and SILL learning strategies was proved as well as between the SILL total score and the MSLQ total score.