The Impact of Using Say Something Strategy on Iraqi EFL University Students' Achievement in Reading Comprehension
Saad Rokan Jasim
College of Arts / Tikrit university
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.8.10.9
Abstract
Reading is the most important skill among the four skills in learning English and being able to comprehend various English texts as expected. Yet, the experience has not seemed to be realized. The goal of the "Say Something Strategy" is to assist students in understanding what they are reading by predicting, questioning, clarifying, connecting, or commenting. Telling students to "say something" about the reading, or offering them specific things to say, keeps them engaged with the content.
In this study, the Say Something strategy is an appropriate strategy to progress accomplishment for improving students' reading comprehension success. The study's sample comprises of second-year university students from the English Department, the College of Art, and Tikrit University during the academic year 2022–2023. It has been randomly chosen and has been divided into two groups, the experimental group with (33) students taught by Say Something Strategy and the control group with (33) students without Say Something Strategy, both groups completed the same reading comprehension test. An accomplishment exam was developed, validated, and administered to the two groups involved. The essential data has been collected and statistically analyzed. Because of the implementation of the Say Something Strategy, the obtained results show that there are statistically significant differences in the success of the two groups of students in favor of the experimental group.
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