Abstract
Among the essential challenges faced by students in foreign language learning processes is vocabulary learning. Lexical competence has been acknowledged as critical to the use of language in which the students’ inadequate knowledge of the vocabulary causes problems in learning a second language. Therefore, learners require being educated with vocabulary in learning strategies when learning a second language. Contemporary research has not scrutinised to the fullest the categories of strategies of vocabulary learning used by learners who are majoring in Accounting. The main objective of this research was to understand how students use vocabulary learning strategies. For that, we adopted a qualitative approach, based on open-ended individual interviews with fifteen learners. The strategies that were concluded include the monolingual and bilingual dictionary use, usage of several media of English language, learning a word by specific texts, and application of new words in everyday conversation, interrelated to memory, strategies of metacognitive, and determination. These are common strategies and have keenly been used by students.
Highlights
Different areas have been involved in learning a second language – viz., learning environments, learning strategies, student needs, language awareness, and motivation
This study examined the use of vocabulary learning strategies by English for specific purposes undergraduate learners who were third-year students of Accounting at Lisbon Accounting and Business School (LABS) in the course English for Business and Financial Reporting
This research aims to answer the following question: ‘What are the vocabulary learning strategies actively used by undergraduate learners studying the English language in the English for Business and Financial Reporting course?’
Summary
Different areas have been involved in learning a second language – viz., learning environments, learning strategies, student needs, language awareness, and motivation. It has become progressively challenging not to disregard the strategies of learning a second language. Chamot and Kupper (1989) established that learning strategies are methods learners use to understand, recall, and store skills and information. For numerous years, strategies for learning have been used. The past two decades have seen progressively rapid improvements in the area of Volume 3, Issue 3, 2021 second language learning strategies Language learning strategies were defined by Oxford (2003) as precise actions that students undertake to make learning more enjoyable, more adaptable to new circumstances, faster, easier, more effective, and more self-directed
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