The Effectiveness of Using 3 H Strategy for EFL Preparatory School Students' Reading Skills
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A reading skill is a cognitive ability which a person is able to use when interacting with written text. An individual's ability to comprehend a text is influenced by his/her skills and ability to process information. People learn reading skills through education and some learn by direct experiences. Reading skill depends on the ability to recognize words quickly and effortlessly. Unfortunately, Iraqi EFL learners who have studied English, in general, remain deficient in their ability to comprehend a text. The present study aims at Finding out the effectiveness of using 3H strategy for EFL preparatory school students' of Reading Skills: Finding out if there is any statistically significant difference between students in the Experimental Groups' Reading Skills at the recognition and production levels in the posttest And, finding out which components of Reading Skills have been affected more than the others .The sample consists of 60 students from the fifth scientific stage at Al-Rawasy Preparatory School for Girls, distributed into two groups, experimental and control with 30students for each. Both groups have been equalized in some variables. The experiment lasted for two months, during the academic year 2023-2024, Face , construct, content validity and Reliability have been attained. The data is gathered by using two instruments: a pretest- posttest to measure Reading skills. The instruments of the study have been validated, and different statistical means have been used to analyze the obtained data. After the statistical treatment of the data, the results revel that: There are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group who is taught by using the 3H strategy in Reading skills . Based on the results obtained in the current study, some conclusions, appropriate recommendations and suggestions for further studies are put forward.
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