EFL Learners’ Emotional Responses Towards Reading T.S. Eliot Poetry : A Case Study of Second Year Master students of English at University of Abbess Laghrour –Khenchela.
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2020
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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The present study was carried out to investigate English foreign language learners emotional responses towards reading Eliot‘s poem namely, ‘’The Waste Land’’. In order to examine EFL learners responses , the study depends on a mixed method; through using non- experimental research with convergent – parallel approach. The sample in this study was 39paricipants, all the subjects where Master 2year students of English from the university of Abbess Laghrour – Department of English – Khenchela . The sample was selected basing on non- probability purposive sampling. The data collected involves using both questionnaires and interviews. The findings demonstrates that Eliot’s poem affect EFL learner’s emotions and thought. Thus the interview examines the learner’s aesthetic experience, and how the learners link their experience and prior knowledge with the fictional world while reading the literary text.