Vocabulary learning strategies： Most frequently used strategies between English major students and non―English major studentsin China

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1、Vocabularylearningstrategies：MostfrequentlyusedstrategiesbetweenEnglishmajorstudentsandnon―EnglishmajorstudentsinChina　　【Abstract】Thepurposeofthisresearchwastocomparevocabularylearningstrategies（VLS）usedbytwogroupsofChineseEnglishlearners，whichareEnglishmajorstudentsandnon-E

2、nglishmajorstudents，andsystematicallyfocusedonthreemainstrategycategories.ThepurposewastoinvestigatethedifferentVLSusingfrequenciesbetweentwogroupsofEnglishlanguagelearners.　　【Keywords】vocabularylearningstrategies（VLS）；Englishmajorstudent（EMS）；non-Englishmajorstudents（NEMS）　

3、　1Thebackgroundtothestudy　　Inthelaterhalfofthe1970s，aninvestigationfoundoutthatthroughtheintroductionofthestrategiesusedbygoodlearners，thosepoorlanguagelearnerscanimprovetheirlanguagelearner’slearning.（Rubin，1975；Naimanetal.，1978）Althoughthereisnocleardefinitionon‘goodlangua

4、gelearner’or‘badlanguagelearner’，Brown，Bransford，Ferrara.&Campione（1983）thoughtthatasuccessfullearnerwasineffectalearningtheorist.13　　2Theanalysisofvocabularylearningstrategiesdata　　ThecomparisonofEMSandNEMS’susingofVLSingeneralwillpresentinthissection.　　2.1OverallVocabulary

5、LearningStrategiesandcomparisonbetweentwogroups　　Asintroduced，thecurrentstudyinvestigatetheVLSdifferencesbetweenChineseEMSandNEMSinZhejiangUniversityofTechnology，differencesbetweenhigherachievementstudentsandlowerachievementstudentswithintwogroups.Unliketheearlierstudies，thi

6、sstudychoosesthreemaincategoriesofVLStoresearch；theyarenote-takingstrategies，repetitionstrategies，andmemorizationstrategies.Besides，therearesevenquestionsabouttheteachingofVLS.Whatfollowsisanoveralldescriptionofhowfrequentlytheparticipantsreportedusingforty-sevenVLSandteachi

7、ngofVLSincludedinthequestionnaire，whosescalerangesfrom0to4.ThedatawereanalyzedbydescriptivestatisticsinordertoreportthemostandleastfrequentlyusedindividualstrategiesamongbothEMSandNEMStogetherandseparately.　　Generallyspeaking，EMSandNEMSappeartousetheVLSnotveryoftenasexpected

8、，sincetheoverallmeanis1.77964，whichisbelowthemiddleofthe0-4scale.Firstly，fo