Use and Helpfulness Rankings of Vocabulary Learning Strategies Employed by EFL Learners in Taiwan

台灣英語學習者使用字彙學習策略之探討

10.7118/JHSS.200512.0007

吳偉西(Wei-Shi Wu)

字彙習得 ； 字彙學習策略 ； vocabulary acquisition ； vocabulary learning strategies

人文暨社會科學期刊

1卷2期（2005 / 12 / 01）

7 - 13

英文

本研究探討台灣外語學習者經常使用的字彙學習策略，外語學習者認為這些學習策略對他們的幫助程度，以及不同年齡層的外語學習者是否有不同的字彙學習策略模式。研究結果顯示台灣外語學習者最常使用的字彙學習策略是：l．使用電子辭典；2．使用雙語辭典（英漢辭典）；3．從文章內容猜測字義。台灣外語學習者字彙學習策略模式不因年齡層而有所差異。

The purpose of this study was to identify the vocabulary-learning strategies adopted by 303 Taiwanese EFL students by demonstrating the strategies they used, their perceptions of the helpfulness of these strategies, the helpfulness ratings of the strategies, and whether the patterns of strategy use change for students of different age groups. The subjects of the study consisted of 101 eighth-graders from a public junior high school, 90 eleventh-graders from a public senior high school, and 112 sophomore students from the Applied Foreign Languages Department at the private university in the Kaoshiung area. The survey was based mostly on Schmitt's (1997) study and on the translated version adopted in H. Chen's (1998) study. The results of the study show that the use of electronic dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and guessing from context are the most popular strategies shared by students from different age groups. Detailed descriptions of the usefulness rankings are given in the study. Teaching implications are made on the basis of the results of the study..

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