Below you have a selection of academic books and articles related to language learning strategies. The books below cover a wide range of topics on language learning strategies research studies such as definitions and classifications of strategies; approaches to strategy training; individual differences and strategies of good language learners; materials and assessment. The articles report on my action research projects on strategies. 

Books

• Chamot, A. U. and Harris V. (eds) (2019) Learning Strategy Instruction in the Language Classroom: Issues and Implementation. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. 
• Cohen, A. D. (2014) Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language. Routledge.
• Cohen, A. D. and Macaro, E. (eds) (2007) Language Learner Strategies: 30 Years of Research and Practice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 
• Grenfell, M. and Harris V. (2017) Language Learner Strategies: Contexts, Issues and Applications in Second Language Learning and Teaching. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. 
• Griffiths, C. (ed) (2009) Lessons from Good Language Learners. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 
• Oxford, R. L. (2016) Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Nation, I.S.P. (2013). Learning Vocabulary in Another Language. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  Articles

• Blanco-Hermida, M., & Úbeda Mansilla, P. (2020) An Action Research Project: Students’ Responses to and Perceptions of Training to Develop Effective Vocabulary Learning Strategies. PUPIL: International Journal of Teaching, Education and Learning, 4(2), 369-389.  

• Blanco-Hermida, M. and Guisado, J.J. (2012) Exploring the listening process to inform the development of strategy awareness-raising materials. The Language Learning Journal. 40 (2), pp. 223-236.

• Blanco-Hermida, M., Pino, M. and Rodriguez, B. (2010) Implementing a strategy awareness raising programme: strategy changes and feedback. Language Learning Journal. 38 (1), pp. 51-65.