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A STUDY OF VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY
STUDENTS OF SEKOLAH DASAR NEGERI SALATIGA 10

Awan Giri Dahana
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Abstract
In learning and teaching English, English vocabulary plays a very significant
role. We need to know the strategies which the students use in learning vocabulary
for helping students gain vocabulary easier. This paper investigated the use of
strategies by elementary school students in their vocabulary learning. The participants
of this study were 96 students who come from the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade
students from Sekolah Dasar Negeri 10 Salatiga. The data was analyzed based on
Schmitt's vocabulary learning strategies classifications, which are determination
strategies, social strategies, cognitive strategies, memory strategies, and metacognitive
strategies. In order to investigate the strategies frequently used by the students, this
study used questionnaire form from Oxford’s (1989) Strategy Inventory Language
Learning (SILL). The result for descriptive statistics of this study showed that
metacognitive strategies were used most frequently and determination strategies were
used least frequently.