Universal Journal of Educational Research 7(12A): 75-84, 2019 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2019.071910 Vocabulary Learning Strategies: Learning Engineering Terminology among Engineering Majors for Industry 4.0 Readiness Amri Muaz Azmimurad * , Najah Osman Centre for Modern Languages & Human Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia Received August 31, 2019; Revised November 24, 2019; Accepted December 3, 2019 Copyright©2019 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract It is imperative in the era of industry 4.0 for scholars including engineers and practitioners to communicate effectively through mastering technical vocabulary in their specializations. The use of strategies in learning vocabulary has been proven to have a significant impact on the process of learning vocabulary. Nevertheless, it was found that advance learning is insufficient, and the digitization era requires more words to be mastered to have clear communication. Hence, this research aims to discover the strategies used among engineering majors in learning engineering terminology. This research employed mixed methods consisting of both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The instruments of this research are, a vocabulary learning strategies questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The questionnaires were administered to 150 students majoring in engineering from five engineering clusters. This research found that engineering students employed determination and metacognitive strategies most frequently. The most frequently used strategy was found to be listening and watching English media while the least frequently used strategy was keeping a vocabulary notebook. Findings show that future communication should focus on interactivity of the media used to increase the proficiency of technical vocabulary and the Malaysian government can drive industry 4.0 though strategies identified in this study. Keywords Engineering Terminology, Explicit Learning Theory, Industrial Revolution 4.0, Technical Vocabulary, Vocabulary Learning Strategies 1. Introduction Industry 4.0 has become one of the most discussed topics in the literature and among policymakers (Dalenogare, Benitez, Ayala, & Frank, 2018). While the benefits of industrial revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) have been outlined by scholars, the readiness for firms and countries worldwide remains empirically limited (Dalenogare et al., 2018). In addition, firms face a shortage of engineers that are reliable, with integrity and able to lead firms to industry 4.0 adoption (Muhuri, Shukla, & Abraham, 2019). This poses a challenge for scholars including engineers and policymakers to increase their knowledge and technical vocabulary to be relevant and in line with industrial revolution 4.0. In Malaysia, the education board believes that proficiency of students to achieve advanced technical vocabulary in any specialization lies in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses that are starting to rise as the needs of language courses especially English language courses that are related to future professions are starting to be the center of attention. Students across all majors in University of Malaya need to take English courses that are related to their respective fields of study after they have finished the English proficiency courses which are usually taken in their first year of study (Ng, 2001). Designing of these courses started with a project named University of Malaya English for Special Purposes Project (UMESPP) and the research was said to be the pioneer of the productions of materials for teaching reading comprehension in the academic field (Omar, 2017). University students are now expected to be able to read and comprehend the reading materials that are related to their fields of study (Boonkongsaen & Intaraprasert, 2014a). Musikhin (2016) supported the claim by stating that the language is now needed to be related to professional areas or fields, especially for scientists and engineers. After the introduction of UMESPP, most of Malaysian universities adopt a similar approach to strengthen the understanding of students in respective studies. This is more relevant nowadays with Malaysian government embedding industry 4.0 framework in its policy (MITI, 2018). CITE THIS PAPER [1] Amri Muaz Azmimurad , Najah Osman , "Vocabulary Learning Strategies: Learning Engineering Terminology among Engineering Majors for Industry 4.0 Readiness," Universal Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 7, No. 12A, pp. 75 - 84, 2019. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2019.071910.