Strategies Used in Learning Vocabulary by the Students of Bible Colleges

Abstract

The present study entitled Strategies used in Learning Vocabulary by the Students of Bible Colleges is carried out to find out the strategies used in learning vocabulary by the students of Bible colleges of Kathmandu valley. The researcher selected thirty students from the three different colleges using simple random sampling procedure. A set of questionnaire including closed-ended questions was used as a research tool for data collection. The data obtained from the informants was analyzed and interpreted descriptively and statistically using simple statistical tools viz. tables and percentage. After the analysis and interpretation of collected data, it was found that the students used all kinds of vocabulary learning strategiesi.e cognitive stretrgies, meta cognitve strategies and social-strategies that were presented in the questionnaire such as noting down the meaning of new words during teacher’s explanation,using glossary section of a book and guessing meaning from textual context under cognitive strategies. Similarly, they spent timein memorizing words and connected new words to already known words under meta cognitive strategies. Likewise, they asked the teacher for translation, asked close friends and learned new words in groups under social strategies. Moreover, it was found that students used all three types of strategies, i. e cognitive,meta cognitive and social-strategies. Among them cognitive strategies were used in a greater extend in comparison to meta cognitive and socio-strategies. It was also found that most of the respondents used the strategies presented in the questionnaire ‘sometimes’ whereas few learners used those strategies ‘never’. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one is an introductory part. This chapter includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Chapter two consists of review of the related theoretical and empirical literature, conceptual framework and implications of the study. Likewise, chapter three is related with methodology. This chapter includes design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy,tools and techniques of data collection, data collection procedures and data analysis x and interpretation procedures. Similarly, chapter four incorporates analysis and interpretation of results and summary of findings. Finally, the last chapter deals with conclusions and recommendations of the study.