چکیده:
Learning vocabulary has always been a major concern for language learners. The current research was implemented to find out the kinds of Vocabulary Learning Strategies (popular, somehow popular, and unpopular) in Schmitt’s new taxonomy (DET, SOC, COG, MEM, MET) used by English-major students. Fifty advanced English-major students at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman participated in this study. To this purpose, Schmitt’s Vocabulary Learning Strategies Questionnaire (VLSQ) and the last level of his Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) were used as the instruments. It was found that MEM was the most frequently used category and SOC the least frequently used one. Furthermore, COG, DET, and MET were the second, third and fourth categories respectively. The results of the study can be used by various people involved in language education including materials developers, language teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The current research was implemented to find out the kinds of Vocabulary Learning Strategies (popular, somehow popular, and unpopular) in Schmitt’s new taxonomy (DET, SOC, COG, MEM, MET) used by English-major students.
In the same vein, this study intended to enumerate the kinds of vocabulary learning strategies (popular, somehow popular and unpopular) used by English-major students.
Taxonomy of Vocabulary Learning Strategies (adapted from Nation, 2001) {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} This section intends to present what previous researchers have done and also what variables they have investigated.
In the same vein, Kirmizi (2014) investigated Vocabulary Learning Strategy (VLS) use of English Language and Literature Department students in relation to academic success and vocabulary size.
The first tool was The Vocabulary Learning Strategy (VLS) questionnaire which was adapted from by Gu & Johnson (1996), and the second data collection tool was a Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) developed by Nation (1983).
A five Likert scale questionnaire, consisting of 36 items was classified under four strategy categories was administrated to 466 participants from The Prevalence of Vocabulary Learning … P a g e | 41 the Duhok University.
Figures 5-9 show the pie charts of student’s answers to second, fourth, thirteenth, nineteenth and forty third statement of Schmitt’s VLSQ and Tables 4-6 contain the mean of items in categories of Schmitt’s vocabulary questionnaire to identify different kinds of strategies (popular, somehow popular and unpopular) based on the literature.