The effect of using students peer teaching on Iraqi EFL students' achievement in the course of library and research work

الملخص EN

Peer teaching is a strategy that allows the students to teach the new content to each other, and they must be accurately guided by instructors.

the researcher proposes that the use of students peer teaching may promote students' achievement and ensure the engagement of all the students in the learning process.

therefore, the researcher employs it as a teaching method aiming at investigating its effect on Iraqi EFL students' achievement in the course of library and research work.

the study hypothesizes that there is no significant difference between the students' achievement who are taught library and research work by students peer teaching and that of the students taught by the traditional way.

the experimental design of the study is parallel groups, random assignment, posttest.

each group consists of 35 students, chosen randomly from the third year students at the department of English in the college of basic education.

both groups were matched in terms of their age and parents' education.

the experiment was fulfilled in the first course for 15 weeks during the academic year 2016-2017.

the same materials were presented to both groups.

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post-test was constructed and exposed to a jury of experts to verify its validity and it was administered to both groups.

the t-test for independent samples was used to analyze the results and it is found out that there is a statistical difference between the two groups in their achievement because the calculated t- value 2.635 is bigger than the tabulated t- value which is 2.000, and also shown the superiority of the experimental group.

the results indicate that the experimental group, who was taught library and research work by peer teaching was better than the control group, who was taught according to the traditional way.

so, the null hypothesis is rejected.

finally, some recommendations and suggestions are presented in the light of the study findings.