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Neste artigo, trazemos algumas reflexões a respeito da influência exercida por línguas anteriormente aprendidas no processo de aprendizagem de alemão como L3 por aprendizes brasileiros. Essas influências podem operar tanto por meio de transferências linguísticas intencionais, controladas pelos próprios aprendizes, quanto por transferências não intencionais. Dependendo do referencial teórico adotado, essas transferências intencionais são consideradas estratégias de aprendizagem e/ou de comunicação. Com base em uma pesquisa empírica realizada em 2017 e em alguns debates na área acadêmica em torno do assunto (OXFORD 1990, 2011; BIMMEL e RAMPILLON 2000; SELINKER 1972, 2014; HUFEISEN 2010), este artigo tem como objetivo analisar as estratégias utilizadas por aprendizes de alemão como L3 em um chat online e refletir sobre as influências interlinguais exercidas sobre os aprendizes de forma não intencional. Os resultados obtidos apontam para contrastes (1) quanto ao tipo de estratégias utilizadas por aprendizes em diferentes níveis de aprendizagem e (2) quanto à língua da qual decorreram as influências não intencionais: aprendizes mais proficientes utilizaram estratégias que mobilizaram mais elementos da língua-alvo, como os circunlóquios, e não sofreram nenhuma influência exclusivamente da língua materna (apenas da L1 e da L2 concomitantemente ou apenas da L2), ao contrário de aprendizes menos proficientes.
This study identifies the language learning strategies associated with the achievement of higher levels o f oral proficiency in German for one hundred Irish third level students. It is one of the first studies of this kind to be conducted in Ireland and one of the very few, if any, conducted on third level learners of German. Furthermore, as well as identifying the strategies associated with higher levels of proficiency, the study also investigates how these strategies are used by learners displaying higher and lower levels of proficiency. It then explores the question of how the strategies associated with higher levels of proficiency contribute to the process of proficiency development, and how students perceive them as contributing to this process. Finally, the relationships between learner specific characteristics, strategic behaviour and proficiency levels are assessed. The experimental design combines a quantitative survey with in-depth interviews. The results indicate that orally more proficient students use more strategies more frequently. In particular, they use more cognitive, metacognitive and social strategies. Furthermore, they have a repertoire of approximately ten key strategies which they employ in a structured, purposeful manner and apply to a range of language learning situations. They are convinced that these strategies contribute to the development of proficiency, a view which is borne out by the quantitative findings. Finally, higher levels of motivation and more positive perceptions of personal proficiency levels are strongly associated with higher levels of both strategic behaviour and oral proficiency. These findings have significant theoretical and practical implications. Firstly, they demonstrate the importance of expanding the research framework in studies of this kind beyond the mere identification of the strategies associated with higher proficiency levels. Instead, as in this study, future research should incorporate questions relating to the process of strategy implementation by more and less successful learners and to relationships between the use of particular strategies and the process of foreign language acquisition. Secondly, the findings contribute to our understanding of the strategic behaviour of the orally more proficient student, and in particular the orally more proficient learner of German in an Irish third level context. This understanding relates primarily to the strategies these learners use, the way in which they use them and their attitudes towards their use. Such an understanding forms the basis of successful strategies based instruction in the language classroom.