چکیده

The current study was designed to address the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary size, and their preferred vocabulary learning strategies. Vocabulary size is a term used for the number of word families a learner knows. Vocabulary learning strategies are a set of strategies that are used by the learners to acquire new words. The focus here was to determine a possible correlation between language learners’ vocabulary size and their preferred vocabulary learning strategy. To this end, 80 advanced language learners, were asked to fill out a form identifying their preferred vocabulary learning strategy. The form consisted of 25 items on different vocabulary learning strategies of determination, social, cognitive, metacognitive and memory strategies. The same learners were then presented with vocabulary size test. The test revealed each learner’s vocabulary size. The obtained results were used to test research hypotheses using correlation and regression analyses. The results revealed that cognitive, metacognitive and vocabulary learning strategies are the most common strategies among the participants of the study. It was also concluded that there is a positive correlation between learners’ vocabulary size and their vocabulary learning strategies. Moreover, regression analysis revealed that vocabulary learning strategies are a predicator of vocabulary size. 42 percent of the data could have potentially been predicted by the results of the vocabulary size test. Identifying the most useful vocabulary learning strategies provides both learners and teachers with a better blueprint for vocabulary acquisition. This research strongly advocates the implementation of vocabulary learning strategies in EFL classes.

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Vocabulary Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Size

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Mohammad Reza Khodadust , 1398 , The relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary learning strategies and their vocabulary size , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي