week 6

How vocabulary and reading comprehension are related and how technology aid them.

Reading is an active activity that involves the reader with the text. How students L2 acquire the reading skill is very important, because through readings learners make use of variety of skills and strategies, combined with background knowledge. In fact, vocabulary plays an important role in the reading comprehension process. For instance, a fluent L2/FL reader need to know about 2,000 to 7,000 words and sometimes even more if they want to reach native-like fluency. And for understanding of academic text is required to know at least of 7,000 words. So that, a reader has to recognize 95% of word in whatever text to comprehend it, and he or she has to know the different meanings and the grammatical properties of word according to the context. This means that vocabulary and reading are inter-related because a good reader has a rich vocabulary, and vocabulary is the key that ensure reading proficiency.

Furthermore, teachers are aid though with some technological resources. For instance, or vocabulary acquisition, instructors could make great use of technology by using multimedia glossed texts, electronic dictionaries, corpora and concordance software, as well as various vocabulary-­building software. Moreover, full glossing seems to be the best facilitator of vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension, as opposed to little or non-­glossed texts. In addition, best results in retention are provoke by picture + text annotations, whereas pronunciation, video, and audio glosses seem to correlate negatively with reading comprehension. However, not all of them are significant for classroom instructions. There are some materials are focus on a specific skill, while other on a wide range of skill and strategies. This means that teachers have to select materials that motivate students and materials appropriate for their level.

To sum up, the vocabulary must be taught first in order to improve the reading comprehension in the learns. Teachers are aid through technology. Like, multimedia glosses for vocabulary and reading development, multimedia-­enhanced electronic dictionaries designed specifically for English language learners, and which have several built ­in aids that their book counterparts cannot provide and other multimedia task that  contain various types of content, such as text, audio, video, graphics, animation, and interactivity.

                                               

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