EFL Teachers' Attitudes Towards The Effect of Vocabulary In Improving Reading Skill

Abstract

This study investigates EFL teacher's attitudes towards the effect of vocabulary in improving reading skills at secondary level schools. The study targeted English language teachers at Karari Locality in Khartoum State. The researcher noticed during her teaching English language reading skill at secondary level that some students have low proficiency and difficulties in reading skill, also some of them can not understand the passage. The researcher has followed the quantitative analytic method to analyze the data. Only one tool the questionnaire was used for data collection and analysis. The Findings have shown that the Learning vocabulary and reading skills are closely related. EFL Sudanese learner can read well with rich vocabulary, readers with poor vocabulary find difficulties in inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words. This study recommended that students should learn more vocabulary, also teachers should use different ways of explaining the unfamiliar words to the students. The researcher suggests some further studies.