İngilizceyi Yabancı Dil Olarak Öğrenen Türk Öğrencilerin Kelime Öğrenme Stratejileri Üzerine Bir Çalışma

This study aimed to investigate the vocabulary learning strategies of preparatory program Turkish EFL students when they learned new words in English. To that end, 85 Turkish EFL students in English preparatory education at a state university located in the western part of Turkey participated in the study. The ‘Vocabulary Learning Strategies Scale’ (VLSS), developed by Kocaman & Cumaoglu (2014), was utilized to collect the data for this study. The results of the study showed that the participants used vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) at a medium level. The results of the study also displayed that while affective strategies were the most frequently used vocabulary learning strategies by preparatory program Turkish EFL students, social strategies were the least frequently utilized vocabulary learning strategies by them. Finally, the results displayed a statistically significant relationship between individual variables such as gender, English proficiency level, success and students’ use of vocabulary learning strategies