Reading comprehension : impact of brainstorming

الملخص EN

This Study aims at investigating the impact of brainstorming on the development of reading comprehension.

The population of this study consists of all ninth graders in Irbid first directorate of education for the academic year2013/2014, totaling of (1090).

Four ninth grade sections were deliberately selected as the sample for this study; two sections, (the experimental group from Al-Amir Hassan Secondary School, two sections (the control group) are students from Saa’d bin Abi Waqas Secondary School.

The researcher administered two tests: a comprehension test to measure students’ comprehension of the reading passages, and a cloze test to measure students’ language proficiency.

An analysis of covariance was used to find out if there was a significant difference between the achievement of the experimental group and the control group (α=0.05).

The findings of the study show that there is a significant difference (α=0.05) F= 78.636 between the performance of the experimental group and that of the control group on the achievement test.

This study has some recommendations for both the Ministry of Education and the teachers.