Effectiveness of strategy instruction for vocabulary learning: a narrative review
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Nowadays, it is strongly irrefutable that vocabulary skills founds the stepping-stone to language learning and should be at the epicenter of language education, in re to the fact that much cannot be implied without grammar; nothing can be imparted without vocabulary. Understanding the key notions of how vocabulary is acquired can help language teachers be able to dispense more realistic and effective vocabulary teaching. With this thought in mind, it is crucial to acquaint students with vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) so that they can do this more effectively. With the expansion of research on vocabulary learning strategy instruction, the question to be posed is whether training on strategies will culminate in improvement in language learners or not. Thus, based on the significance ascribed to teaching vocabulary learning strategies in the process of language learning, the present paper seeks to cull evidences and scour the effectiveness of teaching vocabulary learning strategies.
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 Keywords: Vocabulary, vocabulary learning, strategy training for vocabulary learning.
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Abdulhay, H. (2016). Effectiveness of strategy instruction for vocabulary learning: a narrative review. Contemporary Educational Researches Journal, 5(2), 47–54. https://doi.org/10.18844/cerj.v5i2.234
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Meara, P. (1980). Vocabulary acquisition: A neglected aspect of language learning. Language Teaching and Linguistics Abstracts, 13, 221-246.
Morin, R., & Goebel, J. (2001). Basic vocabulary instruction teaching strategies or word? Foreign Language Annals, 34(1), 1-16.
Nagy, W. E., & Anderson, R. C. (1984). How Many Words Are There in Printed School English? Reading Research Quarterly, 19, 303–330.
Nation, P. (2001). Learning vocabulary in another language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nibset, J., & Shucksmith, J (1986). Learning strategies. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Nunan, D. (1991). Language teaching methodology. London: Prentice Hall.
O’Malley, J., & Chamot, A., (1990). Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Oxford, R. (1990). Language learning strategies: What every teacher should know. New York: Newbury.
Oxford, R., M. Ehrman, & R. Lavine (1991). Style Wars: Teacher-Student Style Conflicts in the Language Classroom, in S. Magnan, ed., Challenges in the 1990’s for College Foreign Language Programs. Boston: Heinle and Heinle. Pask.
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