The effect of using pairs check technique on learner's achievement in reading comprehension

Abstract EN

Reading comprehension is considered one of the most important EFL skills as it is a mean of comunication .It plays an important role in EFL learning process.

Due to the importance of reading comprehension skill there is a need to find out new techniques to develop this skill.

One of these techniques is Pairs Check which is one of cooperative learning strategies .

Hence, the present study aims at empirically finding out the effect of using Pairs Check as a new technique on learners' achievement in learning comprehension.

For the sake of fulfilling the study aim, it is hypothesized that there is no statistically significant difference between the achievement mean score of the learners who are taught reading comprehension by using pairs check tecnique and that of the learners who taught reading comprehension by the traditional technique .

The sample of the study is two sections composed of 80 students randomly chosen from Al- Yarmuk secondary school for girls.

one of them was randomly selected to be the exprimental group and the other to be the control group .

To fulfill the aim of the present study an expriment was designed using 'the posttest –only control group ' exprimental design.

The instrument of this study is an achievement test composed of 20 items .

the test was submitted to a jury of specialists to ensure its face validity.

Then the test was administered to the selected sample.

The data of the test are statistically analyzed by using t-test formula for two independent sample.

It is found out that there is a statistically signifigant difference between the expremental and control groups in favour of the expremental group.