Zamora Nazareno, María José2023-12-052023-12-052016-02-04https://repositorio.puce.edu.ec/handle/123456789/37807Tesis previa obtención del título de Licenciado/a en Lingüística Aplicada mención InglésThe present study examined the most adequate vocabulary learning strategies of 10th level students at Angelo Patry School to learn new words. To achieve this purpose 20 students or participants were present in 10 English lessons during 5 weeks, and 20 hours class; where they learned different strategies to acquire vocabulary. In each class students learned vocabulary that they use in their daily life for example: Frequency adverbs, parts of a house, sequence words, members of the family, places in the city, prepositions of location, clothes and so on. Subsequently they answered a questionnaire of five questions, which was fundamental to determine which Vocabulary Learning Strategies they prefer for learning new words. The mean score indicated that the use of pictures and dictionaries are the vocabulary learning strategies preferred by this group of students. It means that these strategies are the most effective or adequate for them in the moment to acquire vocabulary to communicate with other people, because these strategies enable a fast connection with the meaning of the unknown words, besides they are available for them, and they are easy to get. Also, it must be emphasized that according to the results there are others vocabulary learning strategies that had a low score, but they also permit the understanding of words and their meaning to learn a second language.enVocabulary - learning strategies - LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGEThesis