Vocabulary memorization strategies among Arab postgraduate English foreign language learners
Many studies have investigated vocabulary memorization strategies in the EFL context, but few researches have been conducted on the types of memorization strategies used by the Arab students in Malaysia. Thus, this study investigates the types of vocabulary memorization strategies employed by the Ar...
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| description | Many studies have investigated vocabulary memorization strategies in the EFL context, but few researches have been conducted on the types of memorization strategies used by the Arab students in Malaysia. Thus, this study investigates the types of vocabulary memorization strategies employed by the Arab students in the Intensive English course at UUM. The aims of the study were to investigate vocabulary memorization strategies used by the Arab students and to examine the most and the least frequent strategies employed by the Arab students in learning and memorizing vocabulary. The samples of the study were 65 postgraduate Arab students from different colleges; COB, CAS and COLGIS at UUM. One instrument was used in this study, which is a questionnaire. The questionnaire was adapted from Li (2004) which is based on Oxford’s taxonomy (2003). The results indicated that the Arab students use different strategies in learning and memorizing vocabulary.Reviewing well strategies were found to be the most preferred strategies in contrast with Employing actions which was found to be as the least category employed by the Arab students. Writing words repeatedly a strategy from Reviewing well category was found to be the most strategy used by the Arab students in the Intensive English course while the Associate sounds of words with similar English from Employing actions category was the least strategy used by them. The findings revealed that Arab students see vocabulary memorization strategies help them in learning the English language and consistent with their cultural and educational background. |
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| spelling | uum-223622017-06-12T00:32:57Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22362/ Vocabulary memorization strategies among Arab postgraduate English foreign language learners Al-Qaysi, Fouad Hussein Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi P Philology. Linguistics PE English Many studies have investigated vocabulary memorization strategies in the EFL context, but few researches have been conducted on the types of memorization strategies used by the Arab students in Malaysia. Thus, this study investigates the types of vocabulary memorization strategies employed by the Arab students in the Intensive English course at UUM. The aims of the study were to investigate vocabulary memorization strategies used by the Arab students and to examine the most and the least frequent strategies employed by the Arab students in learning and memorizing vocabulary. The samples of the study were 65 postgraduate Arab students from different colleges; COB, CAS and COLGIS at UUM. One instrument was used in this study, which is a questionnaire. The questionnaire was adapted from Li (2004) which is based on Oxford’s taxonomy (2003). The results indicated that the Arab students use different strategies in learning and memorizing vocabulary.Reviewing well strategies were found to be the most preferred strategies in contrast with Employing actions which was found to be as the least category employed by the Arab students. Writing words repeatedly a strategy from Reviewing well category was found to be the most strategy used by the Arab students in the Intensive English course while the Associate sounds of words with similar English from Employing actions category was the least strategy used by them. The findings revealed that Arab students see vocabulary memorization strategies help them in learning the English language and consistent with their cultural and educational background. Australian International Academic Centre, Australia 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22362/1/ALLS%207%205%202015%20184%20196.pdf Al-Qaysi, Fouad Hussein and Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi (2016) Vocabulary memorization strategies among Arab postgraduate English foreign language learners. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 7 (5). pp. 184-196. ISSN 2203-4714 http://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.5p.184 doi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.5p.184 doi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.5p.184 |
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| title_short | Vocabulary memorization strategies among Arab postgraduate English foreign language learners |
| title_sort | vocabulary memorization strategies among arab postgraduate english foreign language learners |
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