Relationship between Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Reading Ability for Indonesian EFL Students
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Vocabulary acquisition is one of the most difficult stages of acquisition for many language learners. One of the reasons is learners find many unfamiliar words while reading texts. This is especially true for Indonesian Junior High School Students who have a limited access to use English in daily communication. This study aims to investigate the students’ vocabulary learning strategy (VLS) and its relationship with reading ability of 58 Indonesian junior high school students who are in their last year of school. It used two instruments: a test given to measure students ability in reading and a VLS questionnaire to get the vocabulary learning strategy used by the students. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 25.0 program. The One-way ANOVA was used for analyzing the data. Finally, the study found no relationship between low-moderate-high vocabulary learning strategy and students’ reading ability. It is suggested for measuring the students’ vocabulary size and also the relation with another skills of English
Source: Journal of English Development
Authors: Zakiyyatul Maghfiroh Hamidah Assagung, Lies Amin Lestari, Ahmad Munir
Institution: Universitas Negeri Surabaya
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414849292