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مقالة وصول حر Reading for Detail, Vocabulary Acquisition, and Making Inferences as Vital Variables in Inspecting EFL Undergraduates Reading Comprehension(دار جامعة الملك سعود للنشر, 15/5/1430) Hussein A. HabtoorAbstract. This article inspects the importance of vocabulary acquisition, inference capacity, and reading for detailas sub-skills in reading comprehension for EFL learners. Reading is seen as an activity with an ultimate goal, viz.comprehension, which is the core of the process. Reading without comprehension is, absolutely, an ineffectualactivity. Yet, the extent of understanding depends upon many factors, such as, the nature of the reading task, theclarity of the expression, the reader’s purpose, interest, and his background and past experience. Comprehensiontakes place on three levels: literal meaning or construction of meaning, interpretation of meaning, and evaluationof meaning. These processes are emblematically known as ‘reading on the lines’, ‘reading between the lines’, and‘reading beyond the lines’. A group of 23 undergraduates of first year has been sampled in the Department ofEnglish, College of Education at Shabwa, University of Aden to carry out this study and a battery of threecomprehension tests and three cloze tests designed of the same texts were administered. All these tests are set toinspect the readability and comprehensibility of the EFL learners and to check their problems in vocabulary,inference and reading for detail. Results, anyway, have shown that subjects are confronted with problems inreading comprehension ability along with inadequate vocabulary acquisition, reading speed, and the lack ofinsufficient abilities of making inferences in reading process.