The Relationship between Students’ Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Their Beliefs about Vocabulary Learning: The Case of Beto Secondary and Preparatory School.

Abstract

Vocabulary learning is the core element in L2 acquisition and hence the utility of vocabulary learning strategy, having the beliefs about vocabulary learning is inevitable for the success in acquisition of new words or the L2 learning as well. However, the fact that majority of the students in the study spot were certainly in deficiency of word knowledge in their skill performance as a result of the utility of strategies and as the beliefs they hold during vocabulary learning. Thus, the present study attempted to bring forth information about students’ vocabulary learning strategies and beliefs about vocabulary learning based on their learning experience. Further search was made to examine the relationship between VLS and BVL. Accordingly, Beto secondary and preparatory school was selected for its availability of enough number of samples. 100 students were selected from grade 10 for the questionnaires through simple random sampling technique. 5 participants were selected among the respondents, who participated in the questionnaire, using simple lottery method. A questionnaire and interviews were administered to collect data on the issues involved. The study employed descriptive method involving both qualitative and quantitative methods. Descriptive analysis was made using the percentages of each specific item. Afterwards the total percentage and grand means of each category of strategies and beliefs were used to obtain the results. Regarding quantitative data analysis, the spss.v16 software was used to identify the relationship between the strategies and beliefs. Descriptions of data were made by using the results from the correlation coefficient (r) and the p-value for its association. The results show that students do not utilize vocabulary learning strategies, but they possess beliefs about vocabulary learning. The result also proves that there were no correlations between these two variables.