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Strategies of Understanding Written Texts in EFL Classrooms
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Reading strategies are of interest for what they reveal about the ways readers manage their interaction with written texts and how these strategies are related to text understanding, acquisition ,storage ,and retrieval of information .In EFL comprehension lessons, the students try to work out interpretations of the meaning related to the written word through the usage of different comprehension strategies. Yet, there are moments where the participants in the classroom fail to reach a successful understanding of the passage read despite the guidance of the teacher. The present research aims at investigating and identifying moments of comprehension failure and reasons behind them .It also aims at specifying the different strategies used in terms of type and number of occurrences. It is hypothesized that some students in EFL classrooms fail to understand parts of written texts because they do not use any kind of strategy at particular stages of the comprehension process. The samples selected for the research are the two sections of first year students in the Department of English language, College of Arts and Letters in Cihan University. Each section included 30 students who study comprehension as a basic course ,through their first academic year, in an average of 3 hours per week. Eight comprehension lessons have been recorded and the passages discussed during these lessons , were chosen from the students' text book ‘’Practice & Progress’’ by L.G. Alexander, 1967. The research provides a brief overview of the studies related to the process of reading comprehension .It also illustrates the ways many linguists identified the factors contributing to understanding written texts during the previous years. This is followed by mentioning the general strategies that are used by learners of the English language with explanation of their meaning and role in comprehending written texts. Section two presents the analysis of the recorded lessons. Though the discussions of eight passages were recorded, only three of them were included in the research due to shortage of space. Moments of comprehension failure are specified by the letters (CF) with reference to the reason. Types of strategies used during the lessons are identified as well. Finally, it is concluded that the students sometimes fail to grasp the meaning of some lines or parts of a text because they don't use certain strategies .The analysis of the lessons also shows that the strategies that are mostly used by the students, in their attempt to understand what they read, are: using prior knowledge, inferring meaning, questioning, visualizing, and determining importance which are used in sequence and number of occurrences that differ from one text to another .On the other hand, strategies like synthesizing and summarizing are hardly ever used in some texts and never used in others. The research also illustrates the significant role of the teacher that contributes to the students’ critical thinking and understanding of the written text

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Publication Date
Tue Apr 18 2023
Journal Name
Al–bahith Al–a'alami
Marginalization strategies in Iraqi newspapers' coverage of the October 2019 protests “Paradigm” Module
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This study aims to inspect the marginalization strategies implemented by Iraqi newspapers, with a focus on the daily newspaper (Al-Sabah) and its coverage of the October 2019 protests in Iraq, by employing the “Paradigm” Module. The research is descriptive the researcher implemented a descriptive-analytical survey method by using a non-probability sampling represented by (74) issues of Al-Sabah newspaper and used (content analysis form) as a tool to analyze (93) news content related to the October protests.
The Researcher reached several conclusions:
1- Al-Sabah newspaper mainly depends on “Economic Reforms” as a marginalization strategy in its news coverage of the October 2019 protests.
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Publication Date
Mon Oct 06 2014
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
The Effect of the Problem Based Learning on EFL Learners’ Achievement
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The present study discusses the problem based learning in Iraqi classroom. This method aims to involve all learners in collaborative activities and it is learner-centered method. To fulfill the aims and verify the hypothesis which reads as follow” It is hypothesized that there is no statistically significant differences between the achievements of Experimental group and control group”. Thirty learners are selected to be the sample of present study.Mann-Whitney Test for two independent samples is used to analysis the results. The analysis shows that experimental group’s members who are taught according to problem based learning gets higher scores than the control group’s members who are taught according to traditional method. This

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Publication Date
Sun Jan 04 2015
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
The Effect of the Problem Based Learning on EFL Learners’ Achievement
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The present study discusses the problem based learning in Iraqi classroom. This method aims to involve all learners in collaborative activities and it is learner-centered method. To fulfill the aims and verify the hypothesis which reads as follow” It is hypothesized that there is no statistically significant differences between the achievements of Experimental group and control group”. Thirty learners are selected to be the sample of present study.Mann-Whitney Test for two independent samples is used to analysis the results. The analysis shows that experimental group’s members who are taught according to problem based learning gets higher scores than the control group’s members who are taught according to traditional method. This

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Publication Date
Mon Dec 30 2024
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
The Effect of Dictogloss Technique on University EFL Students' Collocation Knowledge
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تتمثل مشكلة الدراسة في الصعوبات التي يواجهها طلاب اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية في تعلم وإتقان المتلازمات اللفظية. تهدف هذا الدراسة تهدف إلى تحديد أثر استخدام تقنية المسرد الاملائي على معرفة المتلازمات اللفظية لدى الطلاب. ولتحقيق أهداف هذا البحث والتحقق من فرضياته تم اختيار عينة عشوائية مكونة من (60) طالبة من كلية اللغة الإنجليزية للسنة الثانية باستخدام كتاب الفهم القرائي المقرر للمستوى الثاني في قسم الل

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Publication Date
Tue Dec 10 2019
Journal Name
London Metropolitan University
Speech intelligibility: a study of Iraqi EFL learners’ accented English
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Publication Date
Mon Feb 06 2023
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Basic Education
Identifying the multiple intelligences of Iraqi EFL Instructors at college level
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Teachers should have acceptable ratios of multiple intelligences. Knowing their most dominate intelligence, teachers will be capable of understanding and considering the multiple intelligences of their students. Accordingly, they will be able to use Gardner’s theory as an effective approach of teaching for all kinds of learners and not limited to a specific type of students especially those who have high ratios of verbal-linguistic and logic-mathematical intelligences

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Publication Date
Wed Sep 15 2021
Journal Name
Al-academy
Processes directing the scenography space in the Iraqi theatrical show Shakespeare texts as a model
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Publication Date
Wed Sep 15 2021
Journal Name
Al-academy
Processes directing the scenographic space in the Iraqi theatrical show Shakespeare texts as a model
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Publication Date
Sun Feb 10 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
ﻧﻈﺮات ﻓﻲ اﻟﻨﺤﻮ اﻟﻜﻮﻓﻲ
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نحاول في هذا البحث الوقوف عند طائفة من المسائل الخلافية النحوية بين النحويين البصريين والكوفيين ، حيث نقوم بعرضها وتحليلها وبيان ادلتهم ومناقشتها مناقشة موضوعية من دون ميل الىمذهب دون الاخر لان غرضنا البحث عن الحقيقة .ولاغرض  لنا سواها محتجين بما نحكم بالشاهد وبما يتفق وطبيعة اللغة  

.واﻟﻤﺴﺎﺋﻞ اﻟﺨﻼﻓﯿﺔ ﻛﺜﯿﺮة ﺻﻨﻔﺖ ﻓﯿﮭﺎ اﻟﻜﺘﺐ ﻛﺎﻹﻧﺼﺎف ﻓﻲ ﻣﺴﺎﺋﻞ اﻟﺨﻼف ﻟﻸﻧﺒﺎري وﻗﺪ ارﺗﺄﯾﻨ

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Publication Date
Sat Feb 09 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
اﻟﺗﻛﺛﯾف ﻓﻲ اﻟﺷﻌر اﻟﻌﺑﺎﺳﻲ
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Through the above-mentioned evidence and opinions on this literary term of art which was not an emergency event or a term recently invented . But its roots stands since ancient times, especially in the unit of independent poetic system , or united poetic unit in the poem, where unit including the densest words and a broader meaning or significance which has been referred to in the midst of this research and the final result that we have reached is that the term condensation can be classified in the equation ofa new literarylistas follows:
Case Pressure Emotionalliteracy andflowingof article + Rich Economy of language in terms ofsymboland image = Heavy wordin a broad sense.
As well as enable the poet to his language and his intellig

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