Do Vocabulary Learning Strategies Correlate to Reading Comprehension

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10.2991/soshec-17.2018.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

vocabulary learning strategies (VLS), strategy, reading comprehension

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze correlation of vocabulary learning strategies VLSs and reading comprehension. The study was conducted with a quantitative approach and employed thirty students of senior high school as the participants. The data were collected through questionnaire and statistically analyzed using SPSS. The results of the research show that the students employed five strategy categories in which cognitive strategies as the most used strategies and had strong positive correlation with reading comprehension, while four strategy categories, metacognitive, determination, memory, and social were moderate correlation. Based on this analysis, it can be concluded that there is a significant positive relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and reading comprehension. It can be said that the more frequently the students employed VLSs, the higher score of reading comprehension they achieved. The present research recommends that English teachers should give appropriate strategies to the students in order to have skills to acquire the words meaning when they encounter reading texts.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Mr Muhaimin
AU  - Mr Suharsono
AU  - Ahmad Munir
PY  - 2017/10
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TI  - Do Vocabulary Learning Strategies Correlate to Reading Comprehension
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