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Learning Strategies For Vocabulary Learning

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Unfamiliarity with Other Existing Strategies for Vocabulary Learning
At the end of the interviews, I asked the participants if they knew of other kinds of strategies apart from the ones they had already mentioned, and whether they were familiar with all 42 items of vocabulary learning strategies presented in the questionnaire they had completed (in the quantitative phase of the mixed methods research design). Some of the participants’ perspectives on this are reflected in the following excerpts. Aziza, for example, stated:
[Excerpt 32] I use only these strategies because I like them. Most of the strategies in the questionnaire lists are new for me, and I have never used them before.
When I asked Aisha, she admitted:
[Excerpt 33] Honestly speaking, I do not know most of those strategies. I have not seen them before. Therefore, I only use these strategies because they are very common and widely used among the students. At the high school, teachers taught us how to use a dictionary…[That] was the method that they showed us.
In another interview, Ali acknowledged:
[Excerpt 34] Honestly, I do not know other kinds of vocabulary strategies, and this is why I am only using the ones that I am familiar with. The teaching experience of the Libyan teachers at the high school was very limited. They did not teach us other strategies. They often used translation more than other kinds of strategies, but when I started studying at the university, my English skills improved because we

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