Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2019)

Students’ Receptive Vocabulary Size and Academic Performance: Exploring Possible Relationship

Authors
Raden Syaifudin, Ayu Wulan Sari, A.P Trisna Paramita, Titis Setia Yanti
Corresponding Author
Raden Syaifudin
Available Online 1 May 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200427.041How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Vocabulary size test (VST), academic performance (GPA), correlation between VST and GPA
Abstract

Vocabulary plays an importnat role in learning a language beacuse it help EFL learners to understand the context and also helps ESL/EFL learners to enhance their capability to learn and use language. It also provides a chance for students to be successful in the classroom because it relates to the students’ acquisition. This study is aimed to investigate is there any correlation between students’ receptive vocabulary size and their academic performance (GPA) by English Language Education Department (ELED) students of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.The instrument used in this study is Nation’s Vocabulary size test (VST) and the transcript of their GPA. The result of the study reveal that the means of ELED students’ vocabulary size is 7663 words knowledge which is higher that the estimates proposed by Nation (2007) for undergraduate non-native speaker. In addition, the finding shows that there is a positive correlation between students’ vocabulary size and their academic performance. The Pearson correlation coefficient is 0.603. It means that the correlation was in high correlation. In short, it can be assumed that students’ who have a high vocabulary size will tend to be good in their academic performance.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
1 May 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-959-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200427.041How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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