AN INVESTIGATION INTO EFL LEARNERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES
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OCTOBER 2020
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ÇAĞ ÜNİVERSİTESİ SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ
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Vocabulary learning, which is one of the most fundamental items of a language,
has claimed its popularity among other elements of a language in foreign language
learning. There have been many investigations about lexical gains of the students and
how they process it. Thus, the purpose of this study is to discover the perceptions of
students towards the importance of vocabulary learning and to detect students’
vocabulary learning strategies (VLS). A mixed method that includes a 5-point Likert
survey and semi-structured interviews with voluntary students were applied to increase
the fruitfulness of the collected data. 138 university preparatory students who will study
in the faculty of engineering, the faculty economics, administrative and social sciences
and translation department at a private university in Mersin participated in the current
study. Moreover, another objective of the current research is to enlighten the relationship
between students’ demographic differences and the strategies they use to learn
vocabulary. Students’ age, English proficiency, majors and gender were taken into
consideration as study’s variables. The results obtained through The Statistical Package
of Social Sciences software program (SPSS) and theme analysis of the interviews have
indicated that most of the preparatory learners strongly believe that learning vocabulary
is highly important in foreign language learning. Besides, statistical results demonstrated
that there is no statistically significant difference between students’ demographic
variables and their vocabulary learning strategies. It was also found that students favor
Metacognitive and Determination Strategies more than the other types of VLS such as
Social, Memory, and Cognitive Strategies while learning vocabulary.
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Vocabulary learning strategies, metacognitive strategies, determination strategies, social strategies, memory strategies, cognitive strategies
