• Sonia Karim

  Author

• Sumiya Karim

  Author

• Rashid Chandio

  Author

Knowing about the language is very aspiring goal. Though, all the vocabulary of language is not
acknowledged even by the native presenters. There are several words families that existing in
English language. The words in families are allocated according to their frequencies; high
frequency words comprise 80% of running words in the text, while low frequency words almost
cover 5% in the academic text. The core purpose of this study is to determine the association of
high and low frequency words with reading by using (Nation, I.S.P. & Beglar, D, 2007) different
levels of test with different TOEFL reading subset, the investigation based on the performance of
second language learners. The setting of this study was based on experimental research. The
nature of this study is quantitative. The research queries were responded through descriptive
statistical analysis. This study took 30 participants for data. The data deals with two type of
tests, first one was (Nation, I.S.P. & Beglar, D, 2007) vocabulary level test for inquiring the
extent of high and low frequency words, while TOEFL two paragraphs for reading test. For the
analysis of data, regression and person’s correlation statistics were examined. The finding of this
research study proves positive and significant result. The obtained result presented that (Nation,
I.S.P. & Beglar, D, 2007) different level of vocabulary test that was; high frequency words have
solid and positive association with TOEFL reading subsets while low frequency words have
insignificant impact on reading performance of second language learners.

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