A STUDY ON VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY THE THIRD-YEAR ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS AT TRA VINH UNIVERSITY
Abstract
Vocabulary is very essential to language learners. If their vocabulary knowledge is insufficient, they will encounter challenges in learning a foreign language. The purpose of this study is to investigate which vocabulary learning strategies were employed most by the third-year English majored students and if genders had an effect on the choice of vocabulary learning strategies. The participants are 40 English majored students at Tra Vinh University including 31 females and 09 males. The questionnaire is the instrument of this research which consists of five different categories: dictionary, guessing, memory, autonomy, and social strategies. The results show that autonomy and dictionary were preferred most by the participants whereas the least popular strategies were guessing and social ones. In addition, genders had no significant impacts on the choice of vocabulary learning strategies.
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