Word Understanding: A Crucial Component In Reading Comprehension

Abstract

Learners’ reading comprehension is very often hampered by their limited words of the target language. Understanding words to grasp the ideas of a text and attempting to use them to express their thought is the major problem which confronts them because of their misinterpretation of the exact meaning as well as the context of the situation in which these words are used. Meaning of words are parts of the decoded messages where the cultural aspects of language influence the learners' speech as well as writing and hence, they make serious mistakes by translating the forms and the meanings from the native language and culture to the ones of the TL. This may lead to the problem which arises when learners make efforts to acquire new habits and behaviour of the foreign language, and at the same time they use the background of their native language habits.