Siriwan (2007) and Suppasetseree and Saitakham (2008) have been carried out to examine whether the students‟ VLS use is related to
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the investigated variables. No empirical research work in the area of VLSs has been carried out in a wider context as in a tertiary level. The present investigation seeks to fill out the gaps by investigating how the students studying at the tertiary level deal with their vocabulary learning. The main purpose of the present investigation is to investigate VLSs employed by tertiary-level students in the Northeast in relation to their gender, type of institution, field of study, language learning experience and the levels of vocabulary proficiency. Furthermore, the reasons behind the students‟ strategy choices have been uncovered in order to get a comprehensive picture of the students‟ VLS use.