Teachers' attitudes towards 1st year students' vocabulary learning strategies at the department of english language-batna 2 university

Abstract EN

Vocabulary learning, in a foreign language, requires special strategies, that have received much attention by scholars, educators, teachers, and even university students.

In this regard, the use of vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) has accompanied the shift from the teacher-oriented to the student-centered.

This paper discusses such an interesting topic, especially from the teachers' views, opinions, towards first year students– at the department of English, Batna2 university– who, in turn, struggle to comprehend written and oral forms of English language.

Thus, "what vocabulary learning strategies are most and least used among 1st year students? ".

And "to what extent they are aware about them? " is the main problem in this investigation.

Furthermore, the paper aims at checking the students' awareness and beliefs about the use of vocabulary learning strategies, identifying the different strategies used, and finding out what strategies are most and least used among them.

To answer and achieve the aforementioned questions and aims, we opt for the descriptive design.

In addition to one questionnaire that is conducted and administered to a sample of (10 out of 69) teachers through the purposive sampling technique.

After analyzing the questionnaire, the results confirm and answer the stated hypothesis and questions.

On the light of these results, some pedagogical implications are suggested as future guidelines.