IMPLEMENTATION OF SCHMITT’S TEACHING STRATEGIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE READING COMPREHENSION OF THE ESL LEARNERS

Abstract

English language learning and better comprehension skills of today’s learner are indeed vital challenges in the current era. Our young learners have to combat these barriers on every step during the pursuit of their academic ventures. The present research paper deals with the importance and the impact of the pedagogies used to achieve lexical excellence. This excellence leads to the better understanding of the foreign text. The core purpose of the study is to check and measure the impact of the chosen vocabulary teaching methodologies on the improvement of the reading comprehension of the thirteen graders (Undergraduates). It was an experimental design where the effects of the strategies used by Norman Schmitt were analyzed on the level of the understanding of the learners. The present paper aims to check which vocabulary techniques were found the most useful by the respondents through a questionnaire. The survey sheet was a useful tool to gather the learners’ perceptions of the pedagogies applied to teach them vocabulary and it also helped them conclude the most engaging and effective techniques among all which were used. The results showed the significance of the specific vocabulary teaching technique in the comprehension of the text and leveraging learners’ feedback for the enhancement of the language skill.