to compare the impacts of teaching through memory strategies on
experimental group comparison to control group, where students were taught the meaning of new
vocabulary items through giving synonyms and mini-contexts. The results are reflected in the students'
short-term and long-term retention. The participants of the study comprised 310 Indian pre-university
females. The results indicated that the students of experimental group outperformed both in short-term
and long-term scores, portrayed the superiority of memory strategies in short-term and long-term
retention. As many learners do not develop sufficient mastery of the vocabulary explicit instruction of
memory strategies and giving strategy awareness can facilitate them to store and retrieve new
vocabulary items. Also, it was shown that being over-dependent on survey tools are open to question,
in spite of being widely used.