EFL Learners’ Responses towards Reading Edgar Allan Poe’s Detective Fiction: A Case Study of First Year English Students at the University of Abbess Laghrour-Khenchela
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2019
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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The present study investigated the ways English foreign language learners respond and
receive Poe's detective stories namely, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The
Purloined Letter. In order to examine EFL learners’ responses towards Poe's detective
fiction, the study employed a mixed research design; using non-experimental research
with convergent-parallel approach. The study involved 30 participants; all 30 subjects
were first year students of English from the University of Abbess Laghrour-department of
English- Khenchela. All were volunteer participants and are selected on the basics of
non-probability purposive sampling. The data were collected using both questionnire and
interview.The findings of the study suggest that, reading Poe’s detective stories had great
influence on EFL learners’ thoughts and emotions. Additionally, results obtained from
interviews showed learners’ aesthetic experiences with the literary text being read. The
research found that EFL learners responded to Poe’s detective stories according to their
experiences calling back all what they know to their reading; they embraced aesthetic
moments stepping away from efferent ones.