English Student’s Strategy in Memorizing New Vocabulary

Memorization is one of the specific strategies in vocabulary mastering. Most students used vocabulary memorizing strategies to acquire new words for improving their vocabulary skills. This study aims to find out students’ strategies in memorizing new vocabulary and the most to least used strategies. The study was employed a quantitative approach since the researcher used 5 Likert scale frequency questionnaires to collect data. The descriptive statistic method was used to analyze the result with aided of the SPSS application. The population of this study was 106 students from batch 2020 of the Department of English language Education, UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. In selecting the sample, the researcher used purposive sampling and selected 30 students as the respondents. The result of study showed there were three main strategies in memorizing new vocabulary; Note-Taking, Repetition / Rote-Learning, and Association. The most used strategy by students was writing down a new word with Indonesian translation with mean value of 4,13 and the least used strategy was listing words in alphabetical order with mean value of 2,43. To conclude, the Vocabulary Memorizing Strategy was helped students in learning new vocabulary, and students have their own preferences in using each strategy to memorize a new vocabulary.