The effect of using story mapping technique on Iraq EFL students' performance in reading comprehension

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The current study aims at investigating “the effect of using story mapping technique on Iraq EFL students' performance in reading comprehension”.

The sample of the study was 3rd grade students from the English Department at the College of Basic Education/ Al-Mustansiriyha University.

To achieve the aim of the current study, eight weeks experiment is conducted on the sample (experimental group ) with pre and posttest.

The experiment was started on 11th October and ended in 11th January, 2019.

A test submitted to experts to ensure its validity and reliability, to filful the aim of the study, the researcher adopted a null hypothesis which indicates "that there is no significant difference between students' performance that used a new technique in reading comprehension in the pre-posttest".

The calculated results have shown that there is a statistically significance difference between the performance of the students of the experimental group on the pretest and posttest.

Finally, the researcher has put down some conclusions, recommendations and suggestions for further researches.