Longitudinal Effects of Mediums of Word Explanation on L2 Vocabulary Learning Strategies Among Chinese Grade-7 Students

Dong, Yang; Tang, Yi; Wu, Sammy Xiao-Ying; Dong, Wei-Yang; Li, Zhen

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00702

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“…Their main concern was to remember the words and they employed various means to achieve this purpose. The concern for memory retention appears to be characteristic of these ELLs as it would help them to remember words to use in writing essays and in the examination (Dollah & Shah, 2016;Dong et al, 2020;Razali et al, 2020). Assessment seems to be main motivation and it would mostly involve the use of words to write essays.…”

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Students’ Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Discovery and Consolidation in Malaysian Primary School English Language Classrooms

Kho¹,

Ramanair²,

Pandian³

2021

JSSH

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A good grasp of vocabulary enables language learners to articulate, comprehend and communicate ideas and concepts effectively. For learners whose first language is not English, mastering vocabulary knowledge in terms of the breadth and depth is challenging and needs to start at a young age through the use of various strategies. The lack of English language vocabulary knowledge would demotivate learners and even result in abandoning efforts to learn the language. Therefore, it is important that learners know and are able to use five strategies, which include determination, social, cognitive, memory, and metacognitive strategies to learn vocabulary. Determination and social strategies are in the discovery category, while social cognitive, memory, and metacognitive strategies are in the consolidation category. This study aims to determine the vocabulary learning strategies used by 132 Year Five primary school English language students in two urban National Type Chinese schools in Sarawak. It investigated the strategies these learners used, how frequently they used them, and their reasons for preferring particular strategies. Data were collected from two classrooms at each school through the use of questionnaire and individual interview. Questionnaire results were analysed descriptively in terms of mean scores and standard deviation while interview responses were coded, categorised and analysed using thematic analysis. The findings suggest that while the students employed moderate use of all the five strategies, cognitive strategies which involved mechanical approaches were the most used while social strategies were not used by all students.

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“…Assessment seems to be main motivation and it would mostly involve the use of words to write essays. Sufficient knowledge of vocabulary is therefore crucial to their performance in assessed work (Dong et al, 2020;Mutalib et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%