LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:3 March 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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The Study of the Effectiveness of Indirect Vocabulary Learning Strategy on the Iranian Undergraduate Students’ Reading Comprehension

Maki Naeimi, Ph.D. Candidate
Dr. Thomas Chow Voon Foo, Ph.D.

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In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in vocabulary learning strategies given that they are found to facilitate second/foreign language vocabulary learning and recall. As many learners do not develop sufficient mastery of the strategy repertoire, explicit instruction on vocabulary learning strategies may help them to become more proficient with the broad range of strategies they can use through their vocabulary learning process. The present study was conducted to study the effect of indirect vocabulary learning strategy on reading comprehension skill on EFL Iranian learners.

To fulfill the purpose of the study, a language proficiency test was administrated to one hundred male and female university students who studied in a course other than English as their major in Omidiyeh Islamic Azad University Khouzestan, Iran. Ultimately, thirty intermediate students were selected and assigned as a homogeneous group to participate in an instruction period. The students were taught vocabulary through utilizing indirect strategies (i.e., Organizing, Discussing your feelings with someone else, and Cooperating with peers) for developing their vocabulary storage in reading comprehension. After ten sessions of treatment, the students were given a post-test of an achievement vocabulary test.

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Maki Naeimi, Ph.D. Candidate/ Corresponding author)
School of Languages, Literacies and Translation
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
11800, Penang, Malaysia
makinaeimi@yahoo.com

Dr. Thomas Chow Voon Foo, Ph.D.
School of Languages, Literacies and Translation
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
11800, Penang, Malaysia
tomichow@yahoo.com
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