Prashneel Ravisan Goundar
Fiji National University, Fiji
Abstract
Vocabulary
learning is one of the major challenges foreign language learners face during
the process of learning a language (Ghazal, 2007). One way to alley the problem
is to assist students in becoming independent learners during the course of L2
vocabulary learning. Furthermore, Ghazal (2007) explains that this could be
achieved through instructing learners to apply vocabulary learning strategies
as efficiently as possible.
This study has
reviewed significant literature and the importance of reviewing the literature
in the field was to realize the implications of our understanding of this
relevant literature for the study referred to in this paper. The definitions,
taxonomies and factors which pertain to language learning strategies and which
are present in the literature have clarified the concepts and helped in the
data analysis, i.e. in the identification and coding of the strategies reported
by the respondents and later in the interpretation of the findings (Cusen &
Buja, 2009).
Furthermore,
this research brings to light the common strategies that learners use in
vocabulary learning. It also discusses the different strategies at length and
suggests valuable recommendations and concludes with further research
implications.
Keywords: Language
Learning Strategies, Second Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Learning
Beliefs, Vocabulary Learning Strategies, English as a foreign
language (EFL).
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