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The Importance of Vocabulary in Reading Among EFL Learners

Table 1: Past studies on the importance of vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension

Author & Year Source Data Collected Samples Findings Country
SH Moghadam, et al. (2012) Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Vocabulary Levels Tests, Questionnaire 58 EFL students Vocabulary knowledge was significantly related to reading. Malaysia
(Razali & Razali, 2013) Englisia Questionnaire Seventy three (73) third-year students of English Department Students improved performance in reading comprehensin through vocabulary acquisition Indonesia
Cain and Oakhill (2014) The psychological year Neale Analysis of Reading Ability:, theWechsler Intelligence Test for Children - III (WISC-III)British Picture Vocabulary Scales (BPVS), revised (NARA-R:) Eighty three (83) students 10 to 11year olds. VK is effectively corelated with making inference than text comprehension. UK
Anjomshoa and Zamanian (2014) IJSELL Questionnaires Administered on Eighty one (81) EFL undergraduate Iranian students. Vocabulary knowledge gives students understanding of reading comprehension text in depth and helped in improving reading skills. Iran
Sidek and Rahim (2015) Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. Reading Comprehension passages, Interviews Five (5), 16 years old Malaysian girls and boys. VK is a determinant factor in successful reading comprehension. Malaysia
Chew-Wei B Souba Rethinasamy L (2017) Modern journal of appllied linguistics Vocabulary levels tests, a Reading Comprehension (RC) test, the Productive Vocabulary Levels Test (PVLT), (VLT),(DVK) Ninety (90) Universiti Malaysia Sarawak undergraduates. Learners achieved better capability and performed better inreading comprehension Malaysia
Al-Khasawneh (2019) Journal of Language and Education VST and reading test from TOEFL preparatory guide Sixty four (64) male university students Vocabulary knowledge is an important predictor in understanding texts Saudi Arabia
Dong et al. (2020) Frontiers in Psychology Theory approaches. Information Gap, and Cognition. Eighty nine (89) students (independant) Vocabulary knowledge determined text comprehension progress HongKong
Brooks et al. (2021) SSLLT Two language tests, C-test and NVLT , interviews ,YAR for Comprehension and SWRT. Group of Thirty one (31) participants Students needed targeted vocabulary support to improve academic text comprehension Japan
Kelam (2021) Humanization Journal for Researches and Studies Questionnaire, Vocabulary post-test Ten (10)Algerian EFL Teachers, thirty students Students‘comprehending abilities were improved. Algeria
Masrai (2019) SAGE Open vocabulary size test and the reading section from IELTS 256 tertiary leve Arab EFL learners l improved comprehending skills in EFL learners. Saudi Arabia
Zhang and Zhang (2022) SAGE journals Meta-analysis of relationship between VK and RC 100 English language learners high relationship between VK and reading. China
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