Vocabulary Learning Strategies Used by Undergraduate EFL Iranian Students
Publish place: The First National Conference on New Approaches to English Language Education and Applied Linguistics
Publish Year: 1396
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: English
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NAELE01_037
تاریخ نمایه سازی: 1 مرداد 1397
Abstract:
This study investigates the various vocabulary learning strategies used by undergraduate EFL Iranian students at Yazd University. Five categories of the vocabulary learning strategies (Memory, Determination, Social, Cognitive, and Metacognitive) were used in this study following Schmitt’s taxonomy. For this purpose, a questionnaire containing forty items selected from Schmitt’s (1997) Vocabulary Learning Strategies Questionnaire was administered to 25 Iranian students majoring in English Language and Literature from Yazd University. This testing instrument was used to reveal the types of vocabulary learning strategies used by the participants, to discover the most and least frequently used vocabulary learning strategies employed by male and female students. The finding of the study revealed that the most frequently-used VLS by both male and female groups was Metacognitive strategies. Also, the least frequently-used VLS by both male and female groups was cognitive strategies. However, there was no significant difference between Iranian male and female EFL learners in terms of the use of vocabulary learning strategies.
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Mina Hosseini
MA Student, TEFL, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
Ali Mohammad Fazilatfar
Associate Professor, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran