Affection Factors Affecting Reading Comprehensions

When we consider by what we mean with vocabulary, the first idea that probably occurs to our brain is “words”, we may have pretty clear idea of what the words are. It is a sequence of letter bounded by spaces. 14 Evelyn Hatch and Cheryl Brown states that vocabulary is a list or set of words for particular language and a list or set of word that individual speaker might use. 15 Vocabulary is a basis of language; it is the “first of language”. 16 Vocabulary as one of the language aspects have to be learned when people are learning a language. Good mastery of vocabulary is important for anyone who learns the language used in listening, speaking, writing and reading besides grammar. A learner of the foreign language will speak fluently and accurately, write easily or understand what he or she reads or hears if he or she has enough vocabulary and has capability of using it accurately. It is obvious that vocabulary is very important in learning a language, especially in English, because the English vocabulary is extremely large and varies as well. Therefore, it is highly essential for English teachers to help their students’ in mastering vocabulary. Norbert Schmitt gave the definition of vocabulary as a basis of a language; it is very important to be mastered first. We cannot speak well and understand written materials if we do not master it. 17 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines “vocabulary means all the words that someone know, learn of uses or the words that are typically used when talking about particular subject or a list of words with the explanation of their meanings in a book for learning foreign language”. 18 In some literature, we found the meaning of vocabulary. There are some definitions of vocabulary. A. S. Hornby in “Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English” states that vocabulary is: 1. Total number of words which with rules for combining them make up a language. 14 Nobert Schmitt, Vocabulary in Language Teaching New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, P.1 15 Evelyn Hatch and Cherryl Brown, Vocabulary, Semantics and Language Education New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995P.1 16 David Crstal, the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995 P.116 17 Norbert Schmitt, op cit. P.2 18 Longman, Dictionary of Contemporary English, Second edition Harlow: Longman Group, 1987P. 1177