아랍어 어휘학습전략과 어휘능력과의 관계 연구

A Study on the Relationship between Arabic Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Vocabulary Proficiency of Intermediate Learners

The purpose of this study is to investigate how to recognize Arabic vocabulary learning and the effective Arabic vocabulary learning strategies of the learners at the middle level. Thereby, this research aims to determine which strategies are correlated with their success in learning vocabulary. In order to achieve the goal of this study, survey questionnaires were collected from 53 Arabic learners at the intermediate level in Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: First, the learners recognized that guessing vocabulary in context for vocabulary learning is an effective strategy. It is important to use vocabulary and new vocabulary should be acquired through repetitive context and reading. Second, in their attempts to consolidate the retention of a newly acquired word, the learners favored the following learning strategies: thinking about the meaning of the words in their minds, looking up words in a bilingual dictionary to find their meaning, and saying a word repeatedly. On the other hand, the learners did not favor the following learning strategies: interacting with native-speakers, putting a name tag on a physical object to memorize words, studying words with a pictorial representation of its meaning. Among six categories from 40 vocabulary-learning strategies, the vocabulary learning strategy used most frequently was determination strategy of discovery strategy, while social strategy of memory strategy was least frequently used. Third, there was a little difference between the high proficiency level group and the low proficiency level group. One minor difference that emerged between the two groups is that the high proficiency level group used a wider range of vocabulary learning strategies than low proficiency level group. On the other hand, low proficiency level students considered social strategies of discovery strategy and memory strategy as more important means of discovering word meaning than the high proficiency students. The present study shows most students were more aware of vocabulary learning, but the vocabulary learning strategies used were very limited and students thus didn't use a variety of strategies. Moreover, in AFL circumstances in which vocabulary learning is completely up to the learners, the study of vocabulary learning strategies is a very important factor when the students are learning Arabic vocabulary. Thus both students and teachers should be aware of the importance of vocabulary learning. Teachers should teach the student effective vocabulary learning strategies based on careful consideration of the differences and characteristics of each student.