A comparative study on vocabulary learning strategies between male and female students toward their English vocabulary size

Hesti Lestari (University of Lampung)
Ag. Bambang Setiyadi (University of Lampung)
Muhammad Sukirlan (University of Lampung)

U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 9, No 2 (2020): U-JET

 This present study was aimed to find out whether there was any significant difference in vocabulary learning strategy preferences between males and females and to investigate whether there was a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary learning strategies and their vocabulary size. The population was the first grade students of SMAN 1 Natar. There were 100 students as the sample. The instruments were the questionnaire and vocabulary size test by Schmitt and Clapham (2000). The result of the Independent Sample T-Test calculation showed that p 0.05. It means H1 was accepted, that there was a significant difference in vocabulary learning strategies preferences between males and females students. Keywords: gender, vocabulary learning strategies, vocabulary size