| dc.description.abstract | The capability to master vocabulary constitutes the crucial spot in the
acquisition of the English language besides four basic skills. In the process of
learning the English language, the students of English as Second Language
(ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL) have difficulties achieving the
English vocabulry. One of the basic skills that should be mastered by students
of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is vocabulary mastery as the basic unit
to support the understanding of the English learning process. This study is
focused on several aims Those are to figure out the features of vocabulary
learning strategies made by the EFL students of Darussalam Islamic institute,
to find the most strategy used by EFL students of Darussalam Islamic institute,
the last is to know the least common vocabulary learning strategy made by EFL
learners at Darussalam Islamic Institute.The study was carried out to 61
students as samples to collect the data. The majority of the respondent is female
which is about 53 respondents and the rest is 8 male respondents from two
classes in which each class consist of 30 students.The data collection involved
several instruments, namely observation, questionnaire, and interview. The
observation was done in the process of teaching and learning activities in the
first semester intensively and attentionally to know the language learning
activities of the target respondents. Afterward, a set of questionnaires was
adapted based on Schmitt‘s (1997) taxonomy which is determination strategy
(DET), social strategy (SOC), memory strategy (MEM), cognitive strategy
(COG), and metacognitive strategy (MET). The 33 questions from 58 questions
are adapted.
To achieve the three purposes of the present study, the data were
analyzed by using all data in this study. The researcher took and moved the
results of the questionnaire from spreadsheet to Microsoft excel 2010, then
analyzed the data to explore EFL vocabulary learning strategies by using
Microsoft excel 2010 with the =average formula. the overall implication of
vocabulary learning strategies indicated that the most strategy applied is a
cognitive strategy which is preferably used strategy by EFL learners with the
highest total average score among others 3.27. And the least vocabulary
learning strategy used is social strategies with the average lowest total average
score of 2.49.And the features shown by the respondebt are they tend to use a
mechanical means. In which, those ways are taking a note in class for finding
the new word in the teaching-learning process, writing word lists can facilitate
the learners in vocabulary learning by sorting the vocabulary alphabetically.
They also give characteristics like analyzing any available pictures and gestures
and sometimes analyzing part of speech. | en_US |
