ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the development and construct validation of a questionnaire designed to measure the reported cognitive strategy use of 301 English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) students. The questionnaire was constructed according to Hunt’s (1982) model of human information processing so that inferences from the response patterns could be related to the human learning process. The questionnaire data were submitted to a series of reliability and exploratory factor analyses (EFA), the results of which showed the relationships between each item and its respective strategy type (inferencing, etc.) along with information on the strength of that relationship. These analyses further showed the relationship between each strategy type and its underlying learning process and provided information on the strength of those relationships. EFA proved to be an invaluable analytic tool in the construct validation of this instrument.
