The Employment Of Learning Strategies In Learning Engineering Terminology Among Engineering Undergraduates

This research reports on a mixed method study with the aim to discover the employment of vocabulary learning strategies by students majoring in engineering course in learning technical vocabulary which is in this context, the engineering terminologies. This research adopted Explicit Vocabulary Learn...

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Main Authors: Amri Muaz, Azmimurad, Najah, Osman
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Language:English
Published: Readers Insight Publisher 2019
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spelling ump-250122019-05-27T07:20:22Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25012/ The Employment Of Learning Strategies In Learning Engineering Terminology Among Engineering Undergraduates Amri Muaz, Azmimurad Najah, Osman LB Theory and practice of education This research reports on a mixed method study with the aim to discover the employment of vocabulary learning strategies by students majoring in engineering course in learning technical vocabulary which is in this context, the engineering terminologies. This research adopted Explicit Vocabulary Learning Theory by Ellis (1994) which proposed that there are usage of learning strategies in the process of learning word meanings. Five vocabulary learning strategies taxonomies were employed in this study which were developed by Schmitt (1994) which are determination, social, memory, cognitive and metacognitive strategies. Each taxonomy has a few strategies that are developed specifically according to the type of strategies used. All five taxonomies of vocabulary learning strategies were compared to the students’ field of study, year of study and English proficiency level. Previous studies highlighted that there were differences found in the use of strategies among learners in comparison to their characteristics. Readers Insight Publisher 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_nc_nd_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25012/1/The%20Employment%20Of%20Learning%20Strategies%20In%20Learning.pdf Amri Muaz, Azmimurad and Najah, Osman (2019) The Employment Of Learning Strategies In Learning Engineering Terminology Among Engineering Undergraduates. In: Asia Proceedings of Social Sciences: Asia Multidisciplinary Conference (AIMC 2019), 1-2 May 2019 , Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. pp. 128-130., 4 (1).
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The Employment Of Learning Strategies In Learning Engineering Terminology Among Engineering Undergraduates
description This research reports on a mixed method study with the aim to discover the employment of vocabulary learning strategies by students majoring in engineering course in learning technical vocabulary which is in this context, the engineering terminologies. This research adopted Explicit Vocabulary Learning Theory by Ellis (1994) which proposed that there are usage of learning strategies in the process of learning word meanings. Five vocabulary learning strategies taxonomies were employed in this study which were developed by Schmitt (1994) which are determination, social, memory, cognitive and metacognitive strategies. Each taxonomy has a few strategies that are developed specifically according to the type of strategies used. All five taxonomies of vocabulary learning strategies were compared to the students’ field of study, year of study and English proficiency level. Previous studies highlighted that there were differences found in the use of strategies among learners in comparison to their characteristics.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Amri Muaz, Azmimurad
Najah, Osman
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Najah, Osman
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title The Employment Of Learning Strategies In Learning Engineering Terminology Among Engineering Undergraduates
title_short The Employment Of Learning Strategies In Learning Engineering Terminology Among Engineering Undergraduates
title_full The Employment Of Learning Strategies In Learning Engineering Terminology Among Engineering Undergraduates
title_fullStr The Employment Of Learning Strategies In Learning Engineering Terminology Among Engineering Undergraduates
title_full_unstemmed The Employment Of Learning Strategies In Learning Engineering Terminology Among Engineering Undergraduates
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url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25012/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25012/1/The%20Employment%20Of%20Learning%20Strategies%20In%20Learning.pdf
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