A comparative study on vocabulary learning strategies between male and female students toward their English vocabulary size

Hesti Lestari, Ag. Bambang Setiyadi, Muhammad Sukirlan

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This present study was aimed to find out whether there was any significant difference in vocabulary learning strategy preferences between males and females and to investigate whether there was a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary learning strategies and their vocabulary size. The population was the first grade students of SMAN 1 Natar. There were 100 students as the sample. The instruments were the questionnaire and vocabulary size test by Schmitt and Clapham (2000). The result of the Independent Sample T-Test calculation showed that p < 0.05. It means H1 was accepted, that there was a significant difference in vocabulary learning strategies preferences between males and females students.

 

Keywords: gender, vocabulary learning strategies, vocabulary size 


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