The Effect of Teaching Critical Reading Strategies on Kurdish EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension

Volume 20 , Issue 3 , December 2019 , Pages 613-634

Authors

Aseel Muhammad Faiq 1 ; Bekhal Latif Muhealddin 2

1 Department of English, College of Languages ,University of Sulaimani ,Kurdistan, Iraq

2 Dept. of English, College of Languages, University of Sulaimani

DOI logo 10.17656/jzsb.10929

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Abstract

Reading is an interactive meaning building process that involves numerous activities. In the
academic context, it is doubtful whether all EFL learners are aware of the reading strategies.

Moreover, even if some learners are aware of these strategies, it is assumed that they may be ill-
equipped to handle the academic reading demands. The current paper aims at examining whether

Kurdish EFL learners' awareness of the critical reading strategies improve their text
comprehension. Fifty students from the College of Languages/ Sulaimani University have been
chosen as the sample of the study. These students have been submitted to pre- and post-tests to
check the kind of progress they may make after being acquainted with the main ways and methods
that can render them good critical readers. The results illustrated a great improvement in the
learners' performance as they achieved a comparison rate of 44% (between the pre-and post-tests)
mainly in the social task that reflects students' own critical performance. The paper, then,
recommends that teaching critical reading strategies to university students should be one of the
basic tasks among teachers' teaching activities.

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