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Chapter One Literature Review

1.1 Strategies
As the terms related to strategies claimed by different researchers are not exactly thesame because of their different study purposes and various perspectives，it is of priornecessity to clarify the important terms of strategies in the present study in the first place. English becomes increasingly important in China as the development of China'sreform and economy. Thus, English learning strategies win more popularity in recent years.In the field of learning strategies, a substantial amount of studies have been carried out.And thus，a lot of related definitions of learning strategies have been put forward."Learning strategies are the behaviors and thoughts that a learner engages in duringlearning that are intended to influence the learner's encoding process".(Weinstein andMayer，1986: 315-327)"Learning strategies are techniques, approaches or deliberate actions that studentstake in order to facilitate the learning and recall of both linguistic and content areainformation?”(Chamot，1987: 80)"Learning strategies are strategies which contribute to the development of thelanguage system which the learner constructs and affects learning directly."(Rubin，1987:15-30)"Learning strategies are techniques which students use to comprehend, store, andremember information and skills". (Chamot and Kupper，1989: 13-24)In another way，Ellis (1999: 234-235) points out that one of the best approaches todefine learning strategies is to list their main characteristics:
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1.2 Studies on VLS Training
Vocabulary is one of the building blocks in English learning. Insufficient vocabularyknowledge of the learners leads to difficulties in English learning. Thus，it is quite importantfor learners to leam vocabulary well and that's the reason why VLS get more attentionincreasingly. However, learners incline to use VLS not so effectively by themselves. Hence,it is necessary to conduct VLS training to help learners leam vocabulary effectively. AsNation (2001; 167) asserts that "since learners differ greatly in the skill with which theyuse strategies, it is important to make training in strategies use a planned part of avocabulary development program".The field of studies on VLS abroad tends to be theory-oriented in the beginning.Researchers propose specific definitions, classifications of VLS and study theoreticalfoundations and research frame for VLS researches. Most researches on VLS haveexplored different methods of vocabulary learning and most studies are memory strategies.Some earlier researches on vocabulary learning focus on rehearsal strategies andrepetitions. (Crothers&Suppes，1967; Lado，Baldwin, & Lobo，1967) In the past threedecades, following Atkinson (1975) and Atkinson and Raugh(1975), VLS researches havefocused on the key-word method，which means finding a keyword in one's first languagethat sounds like the foreign word，and then, connects the keyword and the foreign word byan interactive image.
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Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation

2.1 Introduction
This chapter will present the theoretical foundation of the present study. However, it isnecessary to briefly review the theoretical foundations in previous studies before thepresentation so as to bett本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。