a study on english vocabulary learning strategies in vocational schools

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1、AStudyonEnglishVocabularyLearningStrategiesinVocationalSchools　　【Abstract】Vocabularyknowledgeiswidelyagreeduponasasignificantfactorinlearners’secondlanguageacquisition.Thisarticleconcludesbyarguingthatnon-EnglishmajorsandEnglishmajorsinvocationalschoolstendtofavourdifferenttypeso

2、fvocationallearningstrategies.Itisalsosuggestedthatsomeeffectivestrategiesneedtobeintroducedtostudents，especiallythosewithrelativelylowlanguageproficiency，needapushfromteachersinvocabularylearning.　　【Keywords】EnglishVocabulary；VocationalSchools　　1.Definitionandclassificationofvoc

3、abularylearningstrategies（VLS）　　1.1DiscoveryStrategies　　Discoverystrategiesaremainlyusedwhenlearnersencounternewwords（Schmitt，1997）.Usingdictionariesandguessingorinferringwordmeaningsbelongtodeterminationstrategies，whileaskingteachersorclassmatesforinformationaboutanewwordisinclu

4、dedinsocialstrategies.　　DeterminationStrategies.Asatypeofdeterminationstrategy，theuseofdictionariesisgenerallyexpectedandactivelyencouragedinlanguagelearning.Itisalsoarguedthataneffectivedictionarycannotonlypresentlearnersadequateinformationaboutoneword，butwillalsohelplearnerstom

5、emoriseandgaincomprehensiveknowledgeofitsuse（Nation，2001）.Makingguessesandinferencesaboutnewwordshasbeendiscussedandanalysedinmanystudies（eg.Nassaji，2003）.Althoughthereisnoexactanswertowhatproportionofunknownwordscanbeguessedfromcontext（Nation，2001），learners，especiallythosewithhi

6、gherverbalability，canguesswordmeaningscorrectlyfromtexts.　　SocialStrategies.Socialstrategiescanalsobeusedwhenlearnersencounternewwords.Interactionwithsomeonewhoknowsthewordcanhelplearnerstodiscoverthemeaningsofthewordeasierandfaster.However，itisrecognisedthatthetransferredknowled

7、gecanberestrictedandincorrect（Schmitt，1997）.　　1.2ConsolidationStrategies　　Learnersalsoneedtoacquiremoreknowledgeabouthowtousetheword.Inordertoconsolidatewordmeaningsinmemoryforfutureuse，learnerstendtouseconsolidationvocabularylearningstrategies，whichcoversocialstrategies，memoryst

8、rategies，cognitiveandmetacognitivestrate