A study of vocabulary learning strategy Use by good and poor achievers: new era Pubic school students in focous
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2003-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this s tudy was to investigate re lationsh ip between L2
lea rning achievement a nd the vocabula ry learning strategies. To this end,
fifteen high and fifteen low ach ievers of grade 10 students were selected in
New Era Public School based on their firsl semester performance.
A questionnaire was designed to gather dala 0 ,1 their vocabulary learning
strategies. Interviews were a lso cond ucted. -T-les t and dcscripliv(' -sl-atistics
were u sed to analyze the data. Based on the data, it was found out that
the re was no sirn ifi cant difference betw( cn high und low achievers in use
vocabulary learning strategies. Only s li gh t diffcrenccs were observed in
frequency u se of the strategies; high achievers tend to use vocabulary
learning strategies more often than low achievcrs. In planning and memory
s trategies both groups seem u se the strategies s imilarly.
Based on these findings conclusion and recommendations were forwarded ,
with reference to the theoretical aspects in the lite ra ture.
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New era Pubic school students in focous