Why study? How reasons for learning influence strategy selection

Learners' use of strategies cannot be understood without understanding the nature of their motivation for learning. Using an intentional framework which emphasizes learners' purposes, research in the last 10 years has found that different goals, or different definitions of success and failure, have distinct implications for strategy selection and use. In this review, I describe what we have learned to date about these relationships and suggest how approaches to research on goals and strategies might be broadened.