IMPROVING ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR EFL PAKISTANI LEARNERS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

Learning of words is an activity that begins the day a learner enters the language classroom and continues throughout the lifetime. This fact sufficiently underlines the place of vocabulary building in the language, and even more, in the EFL and L2 classroom. A ‘good’ language user is invariably the one who can use words well. However, as in the case of any other language skill, the knowledge and facility with learning strategies can make all the difference between successful or otherwise language learners. This paper aims to study the vocabulary learning strategies employed by the EFL learners at Lahore University of Central Punjab (UCP), to find out the worthy strategies and make useful pedagogical recommendations for future studies.