VOCABULARY IS CENTRAL TO LANGUAGE AND OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE TO THE TYPICAL LANGUAGE LEARNER.NEVERTHELESS THE TEACHING AND LEARNING VOCABULARY HAVE BEEN UNDERVALUED IN THE FIELD OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQISITION THROGHOUT ITS VARYING STAGE AND UP TO THE PRESENT DAY. SLA RESERACHERS AND TEACHERS HAVE PRIORITIZED SYNTAX AND PHONOLOGY AS MORE SERIOUS CANDIDATES FOR THEORIZING (RICHARDS 1976, P.77) MORE CENTRAL TO LINGUISTIC THEORY AND MORE TO LANGAUAGE PEDADOGY. VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES ARE ONE PART OF LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES WHICH IN TURN ARE ONE PART OF GENERAL LEARNING STRATEGIES (NATION, 2001).THE PROCESS BY WHICH INFORMATION IS OBTAINED, STORED, RETRIEVED, AND USED.DR. CHANIKA GAMPER INVESTIGATED ENGLISH VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY ENGLISH GIFTED STUDENTS OF TRIAM UDOMSUKSA SCHOOL IN THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2008. THE MEAN SCORE OF THE GROUPS PARTICIPATED IN THE STUDY INDICATED THAT THE USE OF METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES ARE MOST FREQUENTLY USED BY ENGLISH GIFTED STUDENTS WHO ARE CONSIDERED HIGH PROFICIENT STUDENTS IN ENGLISH.AND THE LEAST FREQUENTLY USED VOCABULARY STRATEGY WAS “I LEARN WORDS BY LISTENING TO VOCABULARY CDS.”IN COGNITIVE STRATEGIES.THE IDEA OF HOW VOCABULARY IS LEARNT IS PRINCIPALLY RELATED TO STRATEGIES USED BY LEARNERS AS WELL AS APPROACHES TO TEACHING AND LEARNING VOCABULARIES WHICH RESULT IN LONGER AND EASIER RETRIVAL OF THE VOCABULARIES (GRIFFTHS 2003, 2006). OXFORD (1990) DEFINES LEARNING STRATEGIES AS SPESIFIC ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE LEARNER TO MAKE LEARNING EASIER, FASTER, MORE ENJOYABLE, MORE SELF-DIRECTED, MORE EFFECTIVE, AND MORE TRANSFERABLE TO NEW SITUATION (P.8). AS WENDEN (1987A) SAYS LEARNING STRATEGIES ARE THE VARIOUS OPERATIONS THAT LEARNERS USE IN ORDER TO MAKE SENSE OF THEIR LEARNING. ALSO WILLIAMS AND BURDEN (1997) INDICATED THAT WHEN STUDENTS ARE INVOLVED IN A LEARNING TASK THEY HAVE SEVERAL RESOURCES WHICH THEY USE IN DIFFERENT WAYS TO FINISH OR SOLVE THE TASK, SO THIS CAN BE TERMED PROCESS OF LEARNING STRATEGY. SO IT MAY BE EASIER TO SAY THAT LEARNING STRATEGY IS LEARNING SKILLS LEARNING TO LEARN SKILLS, THINKING SKILLS, PROBLEM SKILLS OR IN OTHER WORDS THE METHOD WHICH LEARNERS USE TO INTAKE, STORE, AND RETRIEVE THE LEARNING PROCESS. RELATED TO VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES IN THE FIELD OF LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, LEARNERS APPLY DIFFERENT STRATEGIES TO INCREASE THEIR VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE.THERE ARE SOME PROMINENT STRATEGIES SUCH AS ROTE REPETITION, STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATION, SEMANTIC STRATEGIES, AND MNEMONIC KEY WORD TECHNIQUE PREFERED BY LEARNERS. AMONG THE OFFERED STRATEGIES, IT IS HIGHLY STATED THAT STRATEGIES THAT ENTAIL LESS ACTIVE MANIPULATION OF LANGUAGE TASKS E.G. REPETITION AND NOTE TAKING WERE FREQUENTLY EMPLOYED THAN THOSE THAT ENTAIL ACTIVE MANIPULATION OF LEARNING MATERIALS E.G.GROUPING AND CONTEXTUALIZATION (O' MALLEY AND CHAMOT 1990).LEARNING STRATEGIES ARE THE CONSCIOUS THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS THAT LEARNERS TAKE IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A LEARNING GOAL. STRATEGIC LEARNERS HAVE METACOGNITIVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEIR OWN THINKING AND LEARNING APPROACHES, A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT A TASK ENTAILS, AND THE ABILITY TO ORCHESTRATETHE STRATEGIES THAT BEST MEET BOTH THE TASK DEMANDS AND THEIR OWN LEARNING STRENGTHS.AN AREA OF BASIC RESEARCH IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IS THE IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND THE CORRELATION OF THESE STRATEGIES WITH OTHER LEARNER VARIABLES SUCH AS PROFICIENCY LEVEL, AGE, GENDER, MOTIVATION, AND THE LIKE (CHAMOT & ELDINARY, 1999; EL-DIB, 2004; GREEN & OXFORD, 1995; OXFORD & BURRY-STOCK, 1995).