摘要：The present investigation was an attempt to study the effect of using compensation
and determination strategies on Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners’
vocabulary development. The question which the present study was trying to
answer was: Do compensation and determination strategies have any statistically
significant effects on Iranian upper- intermediate EFL learners’ vocabulary
development? To that end, QPT was administered to 110 female EFL learners
learning English language at Shokouh Institute in Rasht, Iran. So 90 learners were
selected for this study and they were divided into two experimental groups and one
control group, each group contained 30 learners. Prior to the treatment, the
participants were given a pretest to assess their initial knowledge of English
vocabulary. The experimental groups received treatment. The researcher used
compensation and determination strategies in ten sessions. However, in the control
group, the new words were taught in traditional way. After ten sessions, a posttest
was administered to all groups. One-way ANOVA was conducted to see if the
treatment was effective or not. The results were computed and analyzed through
SPSS and it was found that using compensation and determination strategies had a
positive effect on the participants' vocabulary development.
