A STUDY OF VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY
FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS
Hanindha Sabatta Kristy 112008094
Abstract
This paper investigated the use of strategies by non-English major students in their vocabulary learning. The participants of this study were 92 students from Faculty of Information Technology of Satya Wacana Christian University. The data were analyzed based on Schmitt's vocabulary learning strategy classifications, which are determination, social, cognitive, memory, and metacognitive strategies. The result for descriptive statistics of this study showed that determination strategies were used most frequently and social strategies were used least frequently. The result related to specific analysis of each strategy revealed that most of the participants commonly enriched their vocabulary through English media. Additionally, this study also discovered using new vocabularies in writing journal, note or report are strategies least commonly used by participants. Considerably more work will need to done by conducting a further class observation and interview in order to gain deeper analysis of the vocabulary learning strategies used.
