Enhancing reading comprehensive skills Using Short Stories The Case Study of Second Year LMD Students of English at Mohamed L’amin Dabaghine- Setif
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2021
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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The present paper aims to prove that the use of short stories in developing reading comprehensive skills is one of the major important tasks which EFL learners need to develop their performance in reading. Short stories therefore were selected for the purpose to enhance the reading skill of Algerian learners of English as a foreign language EFL, precisely second year students at the university of Mohamed L’amine Dabaghine. Two tests were carried out on a reading lesson by presenting tow short stories entitled Fighting For The Forest and Running For Her Life From A Book Stories of Courage By Glare Gray .Each test is a set of comprehensive questions. The tests were addressed to 25 second year students year students. For the data, they were collected through reading comprehensive questions pre-reading, while reading and after reading. Then, data were analyzed through quantitative and qualitative descriptive analysis. Findings revealed that the use of short stories helps the students to improve their reading comprehensive skills. The results of the test implied that the employment of reading strategies gave an influence to the improvement of the students reading comprehension.
Keywords: reading comprehension, EFL students, short stories, foreign language acquisition, enhancing reading, improvement, development, pre-reading, during reading, post- reading