3. Research Questions
This study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between reading comprehension of academic texts and
vocabulary size of pre-sessional students of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Specifically,
this study was carried out to address the following research questions:
1) How do IIUM pre-sessional students perform in the reading comprehension test?
2) How do IIUM pre-sessional students perform in the vocabulary levels test?
3) What is the relationship between reading comprehension and vocabulary size of IIUM pre-sessional students?