RESEARCH PROTOCOL

Initial Questionnaire for Pilot Study

Questions for assessing background information: 1. 2. 3. How old are you? How long have you studied English? At what age did you first start studying English vocabulary?

Learning Environment, and Mediating Agents: 1. During your primary and secondary school how did you learn new words at home? 2. Did your parents teach you new words at home? How? 3. How your teachers taught you new words in school? 4. What were the methods that teachers had used to teach you new words?

Individual Beliefs and Goals: 1. What do you think about learning English vocabulary? 2. What are your reasons for studying English in general? 3. What are your reasons for studying new English words?

Assessing the Strategies Use by Participant to Learn New English Words 1. How do you learn new English words? 2. What useful strategy do you use to learn new English words? 3. What kind of special strategies do you use to learn new English words? 4. How do you plan your vocabulary learning?

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR MAIN STUDY

Questionnaire to Main Participants

Questions for Assessing Background Information 1. How old are you? 2. How long have you studied English? 3. When did you first start studying English? At what age?

First Research Question: Assessing the Strategies Use by Participants to Learn New English Words 1. When did you normally encounter or learn new vocabulary in English? At what age? How? 2. Did you watch English cartoons? 3. Did you read story books? 4. What special strategies do have to learn new English words? 5. In what way do you learn new words? 6. When do you use a dictionary? 7. How you are studying dictionary? 8. What sort of dictionary do you use?

Second Research Question: Formal Learning Environment 1. How did you learn English words at school? 2. What techniques for learning English vocabulary did your teachers give to you in the schools? 3. What do you think about teachers and text books? Which one was the most helpful for you to learn new English words? Why? 4. Did you learn any strategies from your friends or classmates? How? 5. Did your teacher encourage you to learn new words in English?

Third Research Question: Informal Learning Environment 1. Did your family teach you how to learn new vocabulary at home? What kind of strategies did they teach you? 2. Did you speak English at home? 3. Is there anybody how encourage you to learn new words in your family? How? 4. Who helped you when you got problem in learning English words?

Fourth Research Question: Individual Beliefs and Goals 1. What do you think about learning English vocabulary? Is it important or not? Why? 2. What are your reasons for studying English in general? 3. What are your reasons for studying new English words? 4. Is learning English interesting for you? Why?