Investigating the Strategies Adopted by EFL Learners' in vocabulary learning

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the strategies adopted by EFL learners in learning vocabulary and represents the problem of this study; there are difficulties that encounter the students in learning vocabulary, there are some needs of EFLLearners toknowledge of vocabulary, the researcher has adopted descriptiveand analytical methods to conduct the research. the researcher usedatest as a tool for collecting data. Theresearcher's sample comprises of (30) students drown from second year students of English language –Collegeof languages at Sudan university of Science & Technology and arrived tofollowing findings. EFL learners have difficulties in using affixation of words. Some students tend to learn certain type of antonyms of words. Intensive activities of learning vocabulary helps students to develop their ability mental with regard to synonyms of words.