Strategies Adopted by Limbu Students in Learning English Vocabulary

Abstract

This study entitled Strategies Adopted by Limbu Students in Learning English Vocabulary: A Phenomenological Research Design aimed to explore the learning strategies adopted by Limbu Students in learning English Vocabulary.Keeping the objectives into consideration, six basic level students studying in community schools from Limbu community were selected as the sample by using non-random sampling procedure. Data for this study were collected by conducting in-depth interview through normal conversation with the selected participants. After the collection of data,they were categorized into seven themes and were analyzed by using thematic analysis. I categorized all the findings into seven themes: Vocabulary learning through discussion, motivation, reward and Love,memorization, through pictures,guessing and translation. Despite these strengths, lack of appropriate teaching materials, time consumption, irregularity of the students were the major challenges found in this study. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first introduction chapter consists of the study, statement of the problem, Objectives of the study, research questions,rationale of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, second chapter deals with the review of theoretical as well as empirical literature and its implication for the study. Moreover, it also includes the conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the methodology of the study which covers design and method of the study, population,sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures and ethical considerations. Similarly, the fourth chapter includes the results and discussion. Finally, the fifth chapter incorporates the conclusions and recommendations of this research.