The Effect of Vocabulary Calculative Learning Strategy in Teaching Reading Comprehension for Second-Year Intermediate school Students

Abstract

To achieve the effectiveness of vocabulary calculative learning strategy ,and work out the result whether or not this learning strategy would affect the mastery of English words for second-Year Intermediate class Iraqi students . The researcher utilized two groups. Mainly, control group and experimental group each one has a numbered(n =30 ) . The control group was taught according to traditional method, while the experimental group , was taught according to vocabulary calculative learning, both groups were taught for a period of 6 weeks. Through using statistical procedures, the results of data analysis showed that there is a significant difference in words mastery of students’ reading comprehension achievement in favor of vocabulary calculative learning strategy. It was suggested that more practice of this strategy caused better outcomes and, bigger word mastery of students’ reading comprehension achievement than typical teaching . This training may give a hopeful adjustment by increasing vocabulary development, which , in turn, affects students' reading comprehension achievement