The Contribution of Teaching Vocabulary in Enhancing EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension A Case study of Second Year EFL LMD Students at Mohamed Kheider University of Biskra

Abstract

Abstract Most of EFL learners have difficulties in comprehending the written texts because of the unknown words which may encounter while reading. For that reason, the current study aims to investigate the contribution of teaching vocabulary in enhancing EFL learners ‘reading comprehension. Thus, the researcher hypothesized that if English foreign teachers undertake to teach language vocabulary in context of reading, EFL learners’ reading comprehension will increase significantly. Therefore, in order to test the suggested hypothesis, the researcher used two research instruments which are the quasi-experiment study and the students’ questionnaire in order to collect data about learners ‘reading comprehension. First, the students ’questionnaire was administrated to a sample that consisted of 30 students who were chosen randomly from second-year LMD while the quasi-experiment administrated and conducted with a sample consisted of 30 students who was not selected randomly. The findings which were collected from the current study was analysed and described to test the hypothesis. In addition, the results that were obtained proved that teaching vocabulary will enhance EFL learners ‘reading comprehension. In conclusion, from the obtained results the researches confirmed the alternative hypothesis which state that teaching vocabulary contribute in enhancing EFL learners ‘reading comprehension and rejected the null hypothesis which states the opposite that vocabulary knowledge does increase reading comprehension.