The Effect of Learners’ Language proficiency on Using Vocabulary Learning Strategies

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of learners’ language proficiency on using different vocabulary strategies. Two groups of students with different levels of proficiency (high and low) were selected by a proficiency test among 254 students of an institution. They were 254 male &female students of an English institution in Tehran. For some sessions, these students became familiar with different strategies for vocabulary learning. For observing the effect of language proficiency, some reading passages with new words were given to them that they were asked to use different strategies to learn the meaning of words and also researcher used a questionnaire that students answered and that was related to the strategies that the students used for learning the meaning of words in the test. Results of the test and also observing the questionnaires showed that students in high group used more vocabulary learning strategies with higher frequency than students in low group.

کلیدواژه ها:

vocabulary learning ، learning strategies ، English proficiency