BACKGROUND QUESTIONNAIRE
Please complete this part of the questionnaire first.
(1) Gender (circle): in – f/m
(2) Grade______
(3) School____________
(4) What was your half-term grade in the foreign language you are learning?
(5) How long have you been learning this foreign language?________
(6) If you have TV with programmes in the foreign language you are learning at school answer the following questions:
a. How often do you watch programmes in the foreign language you are learning at school?
b. What programmes do you usually watch?_____________
Foreign languages can be learnt in various ways. The aim of this questionnaire is to find out how YOU learn foreign language words. Please answer how you really learn and not how you think you should learn or how somebody else learns.
Vocabulary Learning Strategy QuestionnaireSecondary School
For each statement you can choose one of the following responses:
1-never 2-sometimes 3 - always
Circle the response that best describes how you learn. There are no right or wrong answers to these statements.
1. I use new words in a sentence in order to remember them.
2. I make word lists and write their translations in my mother tongue.
3. I review words regularly outside the classroom.
4. I test myself to check if I remember the words.
5. I pick up words from films and TV programmes I watch.
6. I use familiar words in various ways in new situations in order to remember them.
7. I ask the teacher to explain the meaning of the word.
8. I remember a word by remembering its location in the notebook, textbook, or on the board.
9. If I cannot remember a word in conversations, I use another one with a similar meaning.
10. I use rhyme in order to remember a word.
11. I remember a word by remembering its initial letter.
12. If I do not understand a word, I look it up in a bilingual dictionary.
13. I remember words that are in some way similar.
14. If I hear a new word in class, I immediately write it down.
15. I like to be corrected if I misuse a word.
16. I analyse word parts in order to guess the meaning of a word.
17. I write down words while I read books and magazines for pleasure.
18. I make word cards.
19. I look (or similarities in sound and meaning between words in my mother tongue and foreign words (cognates) in order to guess the meaning.
20. I plan for vocabulary learning in advance.
21. I remember a word if I see it written down.
22. I try to use a word in a sentence correctly.
23. I say a word out loud repeatedly in order to remember it.
24. I connect an image with a word's meaning in order to remember it.
25. If I do not understand a word, I look it up in a monolingual dictionary.
26. If I cannot remember a word in conversations, I use gestures.
27. I associate new words with the ones I already know.
28. I tape record the words and then listen to the tape.
29. I write down words when I watch films and TV programmes.
30. If I do not understand a word, I ask for help.
31. I write down words repeatedly to remember them.
32. I read and leaf through a dictionary to learn some new words.
33. I remember 'complicated' words because they stand out.
34. I make a mental picture of a word's written form in order to remember it.
35. If I cannot remember a word in a conversation, I describe it in my own words in the foreign language.
36. I imagine a context in which a word could be used in order to remember it.
37. I translate the words into my mother tongue to understand them.
38. I use colours and highlighters to mark new words in a text.
39. I group words together in order to remember them.
40. If I cannot remember a word in the foreign language I make one up.
41. I remember a word if I encounter it many times.
42. I 'act out' the meaning of a new word to remember it.
43. I try to use the new words I learn immediately in conversations or writing.
44. I repeat the word mentally in order to remember it.
45. I try to guess the meaning of a new word from the context.
46. I remember a word it I associate it with pictures, drawings
or illustrations.
47. I listen to songs in the foreign language and try to understand the words.
48. I pick up words while reading books and magazines in the foreign language.
49. I use spaced word practice in order to remember work.
50. When I test myself I try to give the word's definition in the foreign language.
51. If I cannot remember a word in conversations; I use a word in my mother tongue.
52. I remember a word if l remember the context in which I heard it.
53. I connect new words with words in another foreign language to remember them.
54. I pick up words from computer games.
55. If I cannot remember a word in conversations, I ask for help.
56. I remember a word if I connect it with my personal experience.
57. I connect words with other words with similar or opposite
meanings.
58. I connect words to physical objects to remember them
59. I ask somebody to test me on words (e.g. parent, sibling, friend).
60. If I cannot remember a word in conversations, I don't say anything.
Vocabulary Learning Strategy Questionnairefor Primary Schools
Foreign languages can be learnt in various ways. The aim of this questionnaire is to find out how YOU learn foreign language words. Please answer how you really learn and not how you think you should learn or how somebody else learns.
For each statement you can choose one of the following responses:
1-never 2-sometimes 3-always
Circle the response that best describes how you learn. There are no right or wrong answers to these statements.
1. I use new words in a sentence in order to remember them.
2. I make word lists and write their translations in my mother tongue
3. I review words regularly outside the classroom.
4. I test myself to check if I remember the words.
5. I pick up words from films and TV programmes I watch.
6. If I cannot remember a word in a conversation, I use another one with a similar meaning.
7. I write down words while I read books and magazines for pleasure.
8. I plan for vocabulary learning in advance.
9. I remember a word if I see it written down.
10. I say a word out loud repeatedly in order to remember it.
11. I connect an image with a word's meaning in order to remember it.
12. I associate new words with the ones I already know.
13. I write clown words when I watch films and TV programmes.
14. I write down words repeatedly to remember them.
15. I read and leaf through a dictionary to learn some new words.
16. I make a mental image a word's written form in order to remember it.
17. If I cannot remember a word in a conversation, I describe it
in my own words in the foreign language.
18. I imagine a context in which a word could be used in order to remember it.
19. I translate the words into my mother tongue to understand them.
20. I group words together in order to remember them.
21. I repeat the word mentally in order to remember it.
22. I listen to songs in the foreign language and try to understand the words
23. I pick up words while reading books and magazines in the foreign language.
24. I use spaced word practice in order to remember words.
25. I connect words to physical objects to remember them
26. I test myself with word lists to check if I remember the words
27. I pick up words from the Internet.
28. If I don’t understand new words I ask my parents
29. I remember a word if I read folklore
30. I remember a word when I play game card/flash card
31. I pick up words from electronic dictionary
Supplement
The aim of (his part of the questionnaire is to find out what vocabulary work you do in class, i.e. what your teacher does.
Compiled by: agus wardhono
