Students' strategies in learning technical vocabulary of accounting at the state Vocational High School 1 Bangkalan

Vocabulary is the main language aspect used for English teaching and learning. So, vocabulary is indicated as being the most important one because without vocabulary students can’t convey their sentences. Students will have difficulties in learning vocabulary if they don’t know how the strategy. This study aims to find out the technical vocabulary learning strategy used by accounting major students of State Vocational High School 1 Bangkalan and to identify the students’ reasons for choosing the common strategies in learning the technical vocabulary of accounting at State Vocational High School 1 Bangkalan. In this study, the researcher using a qualitative research design. The subject of this study is students from 11th grade of accounting major in State Vocational High School 1 Bangkalan. The data that the researcher used was obtained by using questionnaires and interview guidelines. The result of this study showed that the students applied more than one strategy in learning technical vocabulary. Those strategies are included determination strategy, social strategy, memory strategy, cognitive strategy, and metacognitive strategy. The common strategy used by the student is discovering and remembering new vocabulary such as guessing the meaning of the word from context and using reference material, discovering the word by searching on a reference such as a dictionary, asking their classmates and teacher to translate the meaning of the word, grouping the words into their form and topic, looking for its synonym and antonym and also saying the words loudly while studying them, saying and writing the word repeatedly, using English media and trying to focus and learning deeper on the technical word. The reason why the students used those strategies was that the strategies were practical, fast, and simple but efficient in learning their technical vocabulary.