This study is planned to explore culinary arts vocational high school students experience in learning specialized vocabulary and their strategies to overcome the challenges both in the classroom and field job. This research conducted qualitative research as methodology and did an semi-structured interview with five Culinary Arts Student from SMK Paramitha 1. The interview in topic will ask the respondent about how they learn specialized vocabulary from any media and deepening about language-related issues, individual influences, and learning source the participants from actively learning with structured interview. More particularly, it is planned to understand the participants’ experience of learning vocabulary in (i) lectures/tutorials, and (ii) social contexts. This finding found that students find their own strategies and method in order to face their struggle in learning specialized vocabulary. Keywords:
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