PARTICIPANTS’ CHARACTERISTICS THEORETICAL REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL
25 study was investigating their beliefs, strategies and achievements as English
language learners. The study findings revealed various beliefs about English language learning as well assimilarities and differences in the students’ use of
strategies which were all relevant to their learning achievement. It was presented that beliefs are likely to be a primary factor in strategy use and language learning
achievement. Thefindings showed a direct causal relationship between gender, first language L1 and second language L2 proficiency and vocabulary use,
learning strategies and second language proficiency, andlearning achievement. Conducted in Iran, Rad n.d held his study which focused probing what
would be English language major learners’ beliefs about learning English as foreign language. The researcher examined the correlationbetween students’
beliefs, attitudes and norms and students learning. Applying BALLI’s
components, the results of this study showed to what extend independent variables age, gender and field of study affects dependentsvariables students beliefs
about English leaning and how learning language strategies that has beenapplied by teachers influence students learning. In other words, the findings of this study
provided adequate information about current student of Kerman Azad University Iran. The results showed that the students general beliefs about learning English
as a foreign languageaccording to English language aptitude was slightly neutral, regarding Difficulty of English language andlearning and communication strategy
was slightly strong and for motivation and nature of Englishlanguage aspect was strongly agree.
Büyükyazi 2010 reported a study which investigated the beliefs about language learning of 156 English as a foreign language EFL students and 19
26 EFL teachers in the Department of Foreign Languages at Celal Bayar University
of Manisa, Turkey. The primary aim of the study was to explore what beliefs the students in prep classes held about learning EFL. Using BALLI components, the
study confirmed that learners arrived at the task of language learning with some certain beliefs, which might be effective in their pursuit of the task and in their
achievement.