Self-Control in Learning English

This paper aims to explore the role of self-control skills in English language learning, methods facilitating their formation and connection between students psychological traits and levels of self-control skills development. Despite the fact that many authors studied this issue, no one took into account the age peculiarities of students. In the theoretical part of my paper I am planning to discuss different approaches to the definition of self-control, types of self-control, its functions in the process of language learning, and levels of its development. In the empirical part of this research I will conduct psychological test among second-year students studying at the Department of Statistics and Data Analysis in National Research University Higher School of Economics in order to define their motivational orientation, self-regulation and self-esteem features. Then I will apply pedagogical methodology developed during this study and aimed to define levels of self-control skills development and to facilitate their formation. After that the relation between students psychological traits and levels of self-control skills development will be established. All the results obtained will be analyzed. My research can be useful for teachers and psychologists interested in this issue. I anticipate that the high level of self-control skills formation has a strong correlation with such features of self-regulation as planning and independence, with adequate self-esteem of students and motivational orientation to the process.