AbstractInlanguageacquisition,vocabularyisofgreatsignificanceandhasprovedtobeoneofthemostefficientwaystoimproveone’slinguisticcompetence
ForEnglishmajors,it’scrucialtomasterboththebreadthandthedepthofvocabularyknowledgethrougheffectivevocabularylearningstrategies
MuchresearchhasbeenconductedconcerningtheeffectsoflearningstrategiesonEFLlearners’vocabularysize,butlittleexamsthecorrelationbetweenvocabularylearningstrategies(VLS)anddepthofvocabularyknowledge(DVK),whichlargelydeterminesanadvancedlearner’svocabularycapacity
Underthisbackground,toinvestigatewhatVLSsarebeingusedandtheircorrelationswiththeDVKofEnglishmajors,anempiricalstudywasconducted,where98juniorEnglishmajorsinacomprehensiveuniversityineasternChinaprovidedtherequireddatafortheresearch
ThequestionnaireofVLSisbasedonGuandJohnson’s