EFL university students' recognition of confessional expressions

الملخص EN

This study aims to explore EFL university students' recognition of confessional expressions that appeared in Sylvia Plath's poetry.

The problem of this study is the student's disability to recognize some confessional expressions and the limits of this study is the fourth-year students in English department at Samarra university during the academic year 2021-2022.

The procedure that is presented in this study as the achievement test that appeared as the tool for measuring the university students' recognition of confessional expressions in Sylivia Plath's poetry.

The achievement test has two questions, each question is allotted twenty-five marks by this way the total marks are fifty.

The sample is thirty students that have been chosen randomly.

Test and retest have been done and by this way the reliability is achieved.

Both tests take one hour and they are under the same conditions and have the same results.

Face validity is achieved by having the jury members (teachers in English department) who agree about the procedures of this study.

The researcher's hypothesis is the students in the fourth year in English department have no ability to find the confessional expressions in Plath's poems.

The researchers' hypothesis has achieved that the four-year university students in English department have no ability to recognize the confessional expressions that appeared in Sylivia plath's poetry.