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- Title
Students' Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Discovery and Consolidation in Malaysian Primary School English Language Classrooms.
- Authors
Kho, Sharon Fung-Chien; Ramanair, Joseph; Pandian, Ambigapathy
- Abstract
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 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.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; VOCABULARY education; LEARNING strategies; ENGLISH language education in primary schools; PRIMARY schools
- Publication
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 2, p1375
- ISSN
0128-7702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47836/pjssh.29.2.33