Efl High School Students’ Vocabulary Learning Strategies In An Islamic Boarding School

Abstract

Vocabulary is one of the main aspects to learn for mastering English language. Vocabulary learning strategies exist to investigate and identify the appropriate strategies for learners to improve the vocabulary ability. The aims of this study to identify the vocabulary learning strategies that used by students of senior high school in an Islamic boarding school in Yogyakarta. The method in this study is survey used Vocabulary learning strategies questionnaire adopted from Bennett (2006) by Schmitt’s (1997) taxonomy. From total population 189 students, this research used 67 students from X grade senior high school. The finding of this research metacognitive strategy is the highest score of vocabulary learning strategies chosen by the students with score (M=3,36) continued by the determination strategy with (M=3,25), social strategy with (M=3,01), memory strategy with (M=2,82) and the least strategy used is cognitive strategy with (M=2,56).