Taking a Closer Look at Vocabulary Learning Strategies: A Case Study of a Chinese Foreign Language Class

Over the past decades, there have been a number of studies investigating the vocabulary strategies used by learners of Indo‐European languages, especially English. However, studies of the strategies used by learners of non‐Indo‐European languages are rare. This classroom‐based case study investigates the vocabulary learning strategies used by nine learners of Chinese as aforeign language and tests a taxonomy, based on Long's (1996) interaction hypothesis, for classifying strategies that mayfacilitate our understanding of strategies and their role within second language acquisition.