Vocabulary Learning Strategies

Vocabulary learning strategies are learners' conscious efforts in managing their own learning of vocabulary. Learners use metacognitive and cognitive vocabulary strategies to make their learning more effective and more efficient in order to increase their vocabulary size and depth as well as to learn to use the target words and multiword units automatically and appropriately. The choice, use, and effectiveness of vocabulary learning strategies are affected by a configuration of person‐, task‐, and context‐related factors. Research revealing the variety of vocabulary strategies has been useful for expanding the repertoire of strategies taught and learned in class and practiced by learners to expand their vocabulary in a variety of contexts.