A study of English vocabulary learning strategies of 12th graders at Nguyen Tat Thanh high school in Hanoi, Vietnam = (Nghiên cứu về những chiến lược học từ vựng tiếng Anh của học sinh lớp 12 trường THPT Nguyễn Tất Thành, Hà Nội)
This study investigated the English vocabulary learning strategy use by 100 students with different levels (50 from talented classes and 50 from other classes) enrolled at Nguyen Tat Thanh High School in Hanoi, directly under Vietnam National University of Education. The study found a curvilinear relationship between strategy use and English proficiency which means the high achievers (subjects with higher proficiency than the others) prefer using more grouping strategy to consolidate new words and have their own management and planning strategies to work well. The remaining gaps between almost subjects‘ strong perception about the usefulness level of several strategies and their factual implementation are due to the common issue from a large number of Vietnamese students called ―verbal passiveness‖ and the ―afraid-of-makingmistakes‖ learning style culture. Hence, more vocabulary learning strategies should be introduced to learners and strategy training is essential for learn...