The Effect of Developing Lexical Meaning on Iraqi EFL Students’ Performance in Reading Comprehension

Abstract

         Reading comprehension and vocabulary are important academic outcomes. Between students, vocabulary skill is closely related to reading comprehension skill. The current study aims at investigating the effect of developing lexical meaning on Iraq EFL in reading comprehension.

       To filful the aim of the study, the researcher adopted a null hypothesis which indicates that there is no significant difference between students’ performance who used new techniques in developing lexical meaning  in reading comprehension of that do not use. To achieve the aim of the current study an eight weeks experiment was conducted on one experimental group with pre and posttest. The experiment was started on 11 October and ended in 16^th January, 2016.  At the end of the experiment, the calculated results have shown that there is a statistically significance difference between the performance of the students on the pre and that of the posttest. Finally, the researcher has put down some conclusions, recommendations and suggestions for further research.