questionnaire-vocabularylearningstrategies.docx

Appendix I Questionnaire

Hello, dear friends!
The following is a list of vocabulary learning strategies (VLS). Learning strategies here refer to the methods by which you learn vocabulary.
I would like to know what you actually do, NOT what you should do or want to do.
I would like you to indicate if you have used those VLS which are listed below: if you use it please mark "√" in the blank space under "YES"; if you don't use it, please mark "√" in the blank space under "NO"

I. Basic Information:
Sex: male/ female (circle one)
Grade level: freshman/ sophomore/ junior student. (circle one)

II Vocabulary Learning Strategies
YES
NO
1. Learn words from paper tests (learn from failure).从考试中学习单词（从错误中学习）。

2. Guess from textual context in reading.阅读时从上下文猜词义。

3. Use an English-language TV program.通过英语电视节目学习新单词。

4. Use English-language songs.用英文歌曲帮助记忆新单词。

5. Listen to an English-language radio program.通过收听英语广播记单词。

6. Use an English language video.通过英语视频学习新单词。

7. Read an English-language newspaper.读英文报纸。

8. Use Keyword Method.关键词（在母语中找出与新单词读音等相似的词帮助记忆）。

9. Ask your English teacher or family members for Chinese translation.问英语老师或家庭成员新单词的中文释义。

10. Learn by group work or pair work. 小组学习新单词。

11. Use a monolingual dictionary.使用单语词典。（纯中文或纯英文词典）。

12. Use a bilingual dictionary.使用双语词典。

13. Use picture dictionary.用图片词典记忆单词。

14. Use an electronic dictionary with multimedia annotations.
用有多媒体注释（文本、图片、音频）的电子词典学习新单词。

15. Use spaced word practice. 通过补全单词的方法记单词。

16. Test with your parents.让父母帮助测试新单词。

17. Connect the word to its synonyms and antonyms.新单词与其同义或反义词联系记忆。

18. Do written repetition.通过重复抄写记新单词。

19. Use new words in sentences.将新单词放在句子中记忆。

20. Connect words to already known words.将新单词和已学单词联系记忆。

21. Learn the words of an idiom together.在成语/惯用语中学习新单词。

22. Take notes in class.在课上记笔记。

23. Use English-language Internet. 通过英语学习网站学习新单词（大耳朵等）

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24. Group words together within a story line.
用故事将单词分组记忆（如：读故事记单词，胡敏主编）。

25. Keep a vocabulary notebook. 用词汇笔记本记单词。

26. Image word's meaning.想象词汇意思。

27. Connect word to a personal experience.将新单词与个人经历联系记忆。

28. Ask your English teacher for a paraphrase or synonym.问英语老师新单词的释义或它的同义词。

29. Use loan words in study.通过外来词学习新单词。

30. Do verbal repetition.做口头重复。

31. Learn words written on commercial items.通过写在商品上的内容学习新单词。

32. Listen to tapes of word lists.听单词表的音频。

33. Use word lists made by training school teacher or publisher.
通过培训学校或出版社等的单词书学习新单词。

34. Test yourself with word test.用单词测试检测自己。

35. Put English labels on physical objects.将新单词贴在实物上，形象记忆。

36. Word formation. (compounding: housewife, conversion: I'll e-mail you. e-mail n.→v.) 构词法记单词（复合词，词性转换等）

37. Memorize the meaning of affix and roots.通过记忆词缀和词根的意思来学习新单词。

38. Pronunciation.拼写记忆法:根据读音拼写、记忆单词。

39. Read the new words loudly.大声朗读新单词。

40. Collocation (e.g tremble with fear; quiver with excitement).通过词的搭配记单词。

41. Use semantic maps.通过语义地图学习新单词。（见问卷结尾'semantic maps'图片）

semantic map

Thank you very much!!! Good luck to your final exams!!!

Appendix II Interview Questions
1. 你平时用单词学习策略来记单词么？如果用都用哪些策略呢？
2. 你为什么选择用这些策略来记单词而不是其他策略呢？
3. 你现在已经是大三学生了，那么从大一到大三你记单词的策略有没有变化呢？如果有，有什么变化？