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Students' Vocabulary Learning Strategies their Vocabulary Knowledge Reading Skills and Comprehension
One of the pressing issues that concern people in the academe both local and abroad relates to poor reading comprehension skills. This concern prompted the researcher to conduct this study to identify if vocabulary learning strategies, vocabulary knowledge, reading skills could predict students' reading comprehension. This study made use of descriptive correlation research design. Cluster sampling was used to determine the respondents of the study. It involved 337 grade 6 students. A standardized questionnaire of vocabulary learning strategies by Schmitt (2000) was utilized to get the data on students' vocabulary learning strategies. Researcher made vocabulary knowledge, comprehension skills and comprehension tests were likewise used in the study. The result revealed no correlation between vocabulary learning strategies and reading comprehension. However, it manifested relationships among vocabulary knowledge, comprehension skills and comprehension. The prediction equation to predict overall reading comprehension is constructed as follows: Overall reading comprehension =. 361 + .208 (overall vocabulary skills) + .097 (overall reading skills) +. 143 (sex) +. 129 (antonyms) +. 033 (mothers' educational attainment). It is recommended that researchers replicate this study to further investigate what other variables could predict students' reading comprehension.
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