THE VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON THEIR USE BY CLIL AND MAINSTREAM EFL LEARNERS

Abstract

This study aims to analyse how the use of different language approaches may influence the selection and the evolution of vocabulary learning strategies. This study has been designed due to the growing importance the identification of those most benefitial vocabulary learning strategies (Gu & Johnson, 1996; Schmitt, 1997, Siriwan, 2007) and the lack of analysis about the impact of the teaching approach on the selection of vocabulary learning strategies. A questionnaire (based on Schmitt, 1997) was administered to forty-four Extremadura secondary-school learners —twenty-four CLIL learners and twenty EFL learners— in two different periods along a year. Results seem to show some difference in the evolution of the vocabulary learning strategies.