Using verbal cues to understand literary texts among university students studying English as a foreign language
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The present study aims at finding out the effectiveness of using Circumlocution strategy on EFL university students' comprehension literary texts, finding out the effect of using circumlocution strategy on the elements of comprehension: a. Literal; b. Reorganization; c. Inferential; d. Evaluation and e. Appreciation, the difference between the experimental group's achievement in word recognition and comprehension of literary texts in the posttest. The sample involves 54 students from the second year at Kirkuk university college of basic education, distributed into two groups, experimental and control with 27 students for each group. The experiment lasted for two months, during the academic year 2025-2026. The results show significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group who is taught by using the Circumlocution strategy at the posttest.
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