Studies on English Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Three-year Business English Majors

Vocabulary learning strategies have been studied by a lot of scholars and teachers to a different extent on language learner of different levels.Little research has been done on three-year Business English majors.This study is intended to examine the vocabulary learning strategies applied by those students to their vocabulary learning during the course of English learning.This study is carried out in the form of doing a questionnaire among 117 three-year Business English majors.The collected data is analyzed in the computer by using the SPSS software.The result is that most of the students give up the concept and strategy of repetition and accept the concept of context and practicing.In addition,most of the students know how to make use of cognitive strategies to learn vocabulary.However,those students seldom employ metacognitive strategies and social/affective strategies to facilitate their vocabulary learning.In light of these,some recommendations have given to those students to help them learn more vocabulary by appropriately using the vocabulary learning strategies.