Leveling up the performance of EFL students by using personal response approach

Abstract EN

Reader Response Approach is one of these modern approaches which emphasizes on the creative role of the reader, so the current study sheds light on a fresh look at the reader response theory to enhance students' performance through meaningful interactions with literature.

It is an approach of teaching that gives the students opportunity to learn English, and helps them to learn and practice in class and solve their problem personally.

Personal -Response approach is one of the literary criticism approachs in which the readers can involve their personal opinions, feelings, and background knowledge to create meanings of the text.

Moreover, PRA helps the students' reading comprehension by giving response o f what they read.

The present study aims at: Investigating the impact of using personal response approach on developing the leveling of students' performance in EFL recognition and production and finding out the effectiveness of the personal response approach in improving efl students' performance in learning English language.

The hypothesis of the current study states that there is no statistically significant difference in the mean performance scores of the experimental groups' recognition and production levels in the posttest.

To achieve the aim and confirm its hypothesis the experimental design which is Non- Randomized Experimental Group Pretest- Posttest Design is used.

The sample of the current study consists of (60) students who have been chosen from fifth scientific stage at Ibn -Al-Muaatum secondary school for boys in Tikrit.

(30) students have been chosen to be the experimental group, and (30) students have been chosen to be control group.

Both groups have been equalized in such variables of educational level of parents, testees age, English grades achievement in fourth stage, and the pre-test of both groups.

To analyze the obtained data, different statistical means have been used T-test, weighted mean and percentile mean to measure the students' performance.