The importance of cultural vocabulary acquisition in practicing reading skill of foreign language learners

Abstract

Abstract: Reading comprehension is considered one of the four main skills when learning a foreign language. It seems to be a burden to overcome if learners do not regularly practice. Among obstacles they encounter are a lack of effective reading strategies and insufficient new cultural words of all fields. Obviously, equipping themselves with a wide range of these words is one key to success in obtaining best results for language learners’ reading tasks. This paper aims at analyzing how students of French Faculty at Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE) improve their reading scores after the lecturers assist them to study and memorize new cultural vocabulary from textbooks for 15 weeks. Reliable findings are discussed profoundly and implications for teaching and learning French are recommended.