Accordingly, learners try to
discover the meaning of a new word by guessing it with the help of context, structural
knowledge of language, and reference materials. For Schmitt, another way to discover
a new meaning is through employing the social strategies of asking someone for help
with the unknown words. By the initial discovery of a word, learners need to employ
a variety of strategies to practice and retain vocabulary. Learners, thus, use a variety
of social, memory, cognitive and metacognitive strategies to combine their vocabulary
knowledge. Cooperative group learning through which learners study and practice the
meaning of new words in a group is an instance of social strategies for consolidating a word