Vocabulary Improving through Reading Short Stories: A quantitative study at QUEST, Pakistan

Abstract

This research investigates vocabulary improving through short stories at QUEST, Nawabshah. The main objective of this research is to know how the vocabulary improving strategies affect the language development through short stories to order to improve English language. Data was collected through a questionnaire distributed among 105 students selected using simple random sampling. The data was analyzed through SPSS software. The results were described by means of percentage, mean score and SD.  The findings revealed that students can improve reading skills through short stories to expand their vocabulary through regular English reading, correct pronunciation, and perfect accent, practice consistent spelling, master prepositions, conjunctions, and punctuation rules, and focus on tense consistency and conditional sentence construction. The results also revealed that vocabulary improving strategies can significantly enhance English skills, benefiting academic performance and professional communication in literature as well as in language. This study gave important suggestions and recommendations to improve vocabulary.