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Abstract
This study investigated: 1) the strategies used by EFL university students as they attempted to master new English words and 2) if strategy activation would affect students' vocabulary learning. Two groups of university students were asked to monitor and report on a weekly basis the strategies they used to learn new words. Students in Group Two had the chance to discuss and elaborate on the strategies in the class while students in Group One did not. Both groups were then tested on a multiple choice vocabulary test and two delayed vocabulary tasks of recall and recognition. Group Two students showed a systematically better performance on the vocabulary ...