VOCABULARY STRATEGIES FOR EFL LEARNERS IN PAKISTAN: A CRITICAL STUDY AT COLLEGE LEVEL

Abstract

This research is aimed at exploring vocabulary learning strategies used by EFL students. This research  tried  to explore vocabulary strategies used by EFL students of intermediate college. 40 students with the same ability of English are used as the subject of this research. This is a naturalistic research. The data for this research was collected by using questionnaire. Data were analyzed using simple descriptive percentage calculations. The questionnaire was written in English and Urdu languages. The result of this research are the strategies most often used by the EFL learners in this study were memorization (in terms of social strategies) and dictionary strategies, while the least used strategy discovered is note taking strategies.