A Study of Vocabulary Learning Strategies Among University Students from Non-English Majors

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the strategies that are significantly associated with samples who have superior and limited knowledge of L2 vocabulary. To achieve the objectives that have been selected, this study has used 2 methods to collect information related to this study, namely questionnaires and interviews. A total of 30 students answered the questionnaire provided in the form of Google Form and a total of 6 individuals who came from 3 levels of their English proficiency namely Excellent (2), Average (2), and Poor (2) were interviewed. A questionnaire was used to identify the level of the way those non-English major UMS students learn English vocabulary and their opinions about vocabulary. Interviews were conducted to obtain information related to the strategies used by each of the levels to learn English vocabularies and also to see what they think about learning English vocabularies. Research also shows that English vocabulary can be learned using various methods. The results of the study also proved that strategies given by students were different from the reviewed article because most of them were not linguistically-motivated strategies.