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A Study on the Relationship between English Reading Comprehension and English Vocabulary Knowledge
Joint Authors
Source
Education Research International
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-01-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The present study aimed to investigate the overall and relative contribution of four subcomponents of vocabulary knowledge to reading comprehension.
The four vocabulary subcomponents were vocabulary size, word association knowledge, collocation knowledge, and morphological knowledge.
The participants were 124 college students from a university in Taipei, Taiwan.
Six instruments were employed: (1) a reading comprehension test, (2) a vocabulary size test, (3) a test on word association knowledge and collocation knowledge, (4) a test of morphological knowledge, (5) motivation attitude scale, and (6) a self-efficacy scale.
The results can be summarized as follows.
First, after the effects of motivation and self-efficacy have been controlled, the four vocabulary subcomponents altogether contributed significantly (20%) to reading comprehension performance.
Moreover, depth of vocabulary knowledge (including word association knowledge, collocation knowledge, and morphological knowledge) provided an additional explained variance (6%) in reading comprehension performance over and above vocabulary size.
Finally, among the three subcomponents of depth of vocabulary knowledge, collocation knowledge explained the most proportion of variance (5.6%) in contributing to performance on reading comprehension.
Based on these findings, some implications and suggestions for future research were provided.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ma, Yu-han& Lin, Wen-ying. 2015. A Study on the Relationship between English Reading Comprehension and English Vocabulary Knowledge. Education Research International،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1063877
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ma, Yu-han& Lin, Wen-ying. A Study on the Relationship between English Reading Comprehension and English Vocabulary Knowledge. Education Research International No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1063877
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ma, Yu-han& Lin, Wen-ying. A Study on the Relationship between English Reading Comprehension and English Vocabulary Knowledge. Education Research International. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1063877
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1063877