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1、AStudyonEnglishVocabularyLearningStrategiesinVocationalSchools 【Abstract】Vocabularyknowledgeiswidelyagreeduponasasignificantfactorinlearners’secondlanguageacquisition.Thisarticleconcludesbyarguingthatnon-EnglishmajorsandEnglishmajorsinvocationalschoolstendtofavourdifferenttypeso
2、fvocationallearningstrategies.Itisalsosuggestedthatsomeeffectivestrategiesneedtobeintroducedtostudents,especiallythosewithrelativelylowlanguageproficiency,needapushfromteachersinvocabularylearning. 【Keywords】EnglishVocabulary;VocationalSchools 1.Definitionandclassificationofvoc
3、abularylearningstrategies(VLS) 1.1DiscoveryStrategies Discoverystrategiesaremainlyusedwhenlearnersencounternewwords(Schmitt,1997).Usingdictionariesandguessingorinferringwordmeaningsbelongtodeterminationstrategies,whileaskingteachersorclassmatesforinformationaboutanewwordisinclu
4、dedinsocialstrategies. DeterminationStrategies.Asatypeofdeterminationstrategy,theuseofdictionariesisgenerallyexpectedandactivelyencouragedinlanguagelearning.Itisalsoarguedthataneffectivedictionarycannotonlypresentlearnersadequateinformationaboutoneword,butwillalsohelplearnerstom
5、emoriseandgaincomprehensiveknowledgeofitsuse(Nation,2001).Makingguessesandinferencesaboutnewwordshasbeendiscussedandanalysedinmanystudies(eg.Nassaji,2003).Althoughthereisnoexactanswertowhatproportionofunknownwordscanbeguessedfromcontext(Nation,2001),learners,especiallythosewithhi
6、gherverbalability,canguesswordmeaningscorrectlyfromtexts. SocialStrategies.Socialstrategiescanalsobeusedwhenlearnersencounternewwords.Interactionwithsomeonewhoknowsthewordcanhelplearnerstodiscoverthemeaningsofthewordeasierandfaster.However,itisrecognisedthatthetransferredknowled
7、gecanberestrictedandincorrect(Schmitt,1997). 1.2ConsolidationStrategies Learnersalsoneedtoacquiremoreknowledgeabouthowtousetheword.Inordertoconsolidatewordmeaningsinmemoryforfutureuse,learnerstendtouseconsolidationvocabularylearningstrategies,whichcoversocialstrategies,memoryst
8、rategies,cognitiveandmetacognitivestrate