EFL students’ vocabulary learning strategies and their affixes knowledge

Year 2019, Volume: 15 Issue: 1, 262 - 275, 25.03.2019

Eko Noprianto Pupung Purnawarman

https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.547730

Abstract

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EFL students’ vocabulary learning strategies and their affixes knowledge
Vocabulary Learning Strategies and knowledge of affixes have long been considered to have influence on learners’ vocabulary learning. However, how they relate to each other seems to have drawn little attention. This current study was intended to explore the frequency of vocabulary learning strategies used by Indonesian high school students, to find out their  knowledge of affixes as well as to figure out how their reported vocabulary learning strategies use relate to their knowledge of affixes. This correlational study involved 116 participants of the first grade of senior high school consisting of 27 males and 89 females aged between fourteen and seventeen years old.  A questionnaire of Vocabulary Learning Strategies adapted from Schmitt (1997) and a Word Part Level Test proposed by Sasao & Webb (2015) were employed to answer the research questions. Using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software (SPSS version 24), it was discovered that the participants used a medium level of frequency of Vocabulary Learning Strategies with Determination strategy most preferred by them. In addition, it was found that their affixes knowledge was low with multi, re-, inter- , dis-, -ful, and –er respectively considered as the order of their affixes acquisition. With respect to their interrelatedness, the overall participants’ Vocabulary Learning Strategies significantly contribute to their knowledge of affixes.  However, unlike Memory strategy, Determination strategy proved to have no significant contributions to their affixes knowledge.
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Author (Last name, First name)	Noprianto, Eko
Affiliated institution (University)	Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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Author (Last name, First name)	Purnawarman, Pupung
Affiliated institution (University)	Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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Keywords

Affixes, Affixes Knowledge

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