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Difference Between Vocabulary And Reading Comprehension

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When students or many people want to try to talk, write a sentence, or read some book they will need a word then ot it is mean that they need vocabulary so they can do that things. Beside that, vocabulary also the important component that usually uses in reading instruction beside the text comprehension, how they pronounce the words, phonics, and how the students awarre abouth the phonic in reading. In Oxford dictionary, it explain that vocabulary as a list words that difficult or is not familiar for people and give explanation of that word meaning and with a piece of specialist or foreign language test. Alternatively, there is another argument that said a word has not only included by explanation but also how that word realted into the world and this argument comes from Stahl (2005).
Vocabulary has the important part for students so it makes many teachers should teach about vocabulary knowledge for the begining. There are many ways to teach their …show more content…

There are two method that teacher commonly use in the class to teach them between reading comprehension and vocabulary. The two method are indirect teaching method and direct teaching method. In indirect teaching method, the teacher will teach them some strategies which are so useful to make them easiest to find out the meaning in the words that they do not know while they are reading. In indirect teaching method, students also should be analyzed words in the reading task and have knowledge to use dictionary to find the meaning of the words. The second method is direct learning method. In this method students will be learnt to use three strategies to learn vocabulary such as cognitive, memory, and compensation strategies by Oxford (1990). Moreover, with direct teaching method, teacher wants students know about direct learning strategies and make their vocabulary increase day by

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