A Survey on Indonesian Undergraduate Students’ English Vocabulary Learning Strategies

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the learning strategies that are used to learn vocabulary among EFL undergraduate students at a private university. The respondents in this study was 49 students in a total of the English Language Education Department. This study used quantitative method, a survey study and the instrument to collect the data was adapted by Gu (2018). The questionnaire consisted of 50 items divided into 4 dimensions was carried out. The data were analyzed using SPSS 26 and reported through descriptive statistics through mean and standard deviation. The results showed that the cognitive strategies were the most strategy used by EFL undergraduate students with a mean score (M= 4.06) followed by reinforcement strategies with a mean score (M= 4.00) and Metacognitive strategies with a mean score (M= 3.90). Meanwhile, the activation strategies were the strategies less used by EFL undergraduate students with a mean score (M= 3.67). The findings suggest that it can encourage the teachers as part of the material design for the lesson plan and the students can find the right strategies that are suitable for them.