Forschungsprojekt ADEQUA – Bericht über ein DFG-Forschungsprojekt zur Förderung von Lernstrategien im Englischunterricht

The ADEQUA research project, which is funded by the Gerrnan Research Foundation (DFG), wants to gain empirical evidence as to how autonomous leaming in the EFL classroom can effectively be supported during textbased classroom activities. For this purpose, new task formats for the EFL classroom have been developed which allow for independent work with texts in the foreign language (text comprehension) in cooperative literacy events that make cooperation among the leamers compulsory. The ADEQUA project focuses on the following research questions: (!) What leaming strategies do students use under what conditions? (2) Are these strategies adequate in the given leaming setting? (3) What interventions do teachers identify as necessary to support the leamers, and what interventions do they apply? ( 4) Are these teacher interventions effective? The research project is situated within the context of current efforts in education to implement high-quality student-centered, cognitively challenging classroom activities and to foster autonomous, student-active leaming.