Foreign Students' Vocabulary Learning Strategies

The strategies that foreign students use in vocabulary learning during their process of second language acquisition are receiving more and more attention. Many linguists raised their own ideas on the theory establishment. The writer of this study is trying to establish a new theoretical framework for the strategies, and to unveil the mystery of successful learners, in order to help more language learners acquire second language effectively. And we find that it is the social and affective strategy which was very often neglected by both language teachers and learners, calls for much more attention. According to the final result, we now propose more cultivation and application of the social and affective strategies in second language acquisition.