The Research On The Vocabulary And English Reading Proficiency Of Middle Vocational School Students

Both vocabulary teaching and reading teaching occupy an important position in the teaching of foreign languages, and they are the difficulty to the students in the Middle Vocational School. As is well-known to all, vocabulary is one of the basic requirements in reading. In the past century, many scholars and teachers have been carrying out a lot of studies in proving the relationship between them. The purpose of this survey is, by standing on giants' shoulders, to build a better understanding of the relationship between them on the basis of Reading Models, Schemata Theory, The Short Circuit Hypothesis, and the Threshold of Linguistic Competence and so on and to shed some light on the teaching and research of English vocabulary and reading in our county.124 third-year Middle Vocational School students were selected as my subjects. The present study consists of a questionnaire and two tests: vocabulary size test and reading comprehension test. And I made a detailed analysis of these data with SPSS 17.0.The major research findings of the study indicate that: (1) there exists a moderate, positive correlation relationship between vocabulary size and reading comprehension. (2)Vocabulary plays an important part in reading comprehension, however the participants thought reading strategy has the most significant effect on the reading performance. (3)We should pay more attention to extracurricular reading and their incidental vocabulary learning.