The Rhetorical Difficulties of Teaching English Novel to the Third Grade from the Students’ Perspectives
Najat Abdullah Mohammed
University of Tikrit / College of Education for Humanities
Amra Ibrahim Sultan
University of Tikrit / College of Education for Humanities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.6.3.1.5
Keywords: Rhetorical, Difficulties, Novel, Instructors, Students, Perspectives
Abstract
This study aims at revealing the rhetorical difficulties of teaching English novel to the third grade from the students' perspectives at the Universities of Tikrit and Kirkuk. 1. Finding out the rhetorical difficulties and the problems that face Third grade students in the English Departments in Tikrit and Kirkuk Universities in teaching novel from students' perspectives. The population of the study are 161 students from English Departments in Colleges of Education for Humanities at Tikrit and Kirkuk Universities, whereas the sample is 65 students. The questionnaire has been constructed and distributed to the third year students of English Department in the Colleges of Education at Tikrit and Kirkuk Universities. The questionnaire of students which contains (20) items, to be answered by the third year students. The novels that are included in the questionnaire are: 1. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte 2. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens After the analysis of the results of the current study. It is recommended that rhetorical difficulties of novel should be concentrated, explained, analyzed to students.
