LEARNING STRATEGIES AND STUDYING HABITS IN BILINGUAL SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS

Nowadays, many education centres use bilingual teaching systems to allow students to learn subjects in a different language to their mother tongue. Knowing how these students learn is fundamental to not only improve students' own development, but to also improve the education system in general. Indeed, it is worth exploring and seeing what kind of learning strategies they use as they are useful and necessary tools that allow students to manage and process new information more efficiently and, in turn, to know what study habits they use. In other words, the way they face their academic tasks daily, the natural habits they have to permanently learn, which involves how individuals organise their time, space, and the specific techniques and methods they use to study, which also seem necessary tasks. A study was conducted with 455 secondary education students from an institute in the capital city of Zaragoza (Spain) to learn their study strategies and habits in relation to certain demographic variables, gender, age, academic year and family relations. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK