The Effectiveness of Visualization Mental strategy on EFL University Students' Story Reading Comprehension Skills
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Visualization mental strategy is a strategy used to develop EFL students' story reading comprehension skills especially their ability to construct mental images the current study aims to Finding out the effectiveness of the visualization mental strategy on EFL university students story reading comprehension skills. There are no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental groups in the reading comprehension skills at the recognition and the production levels at the post-test. Finding out the effectiveness of the visualization mental strategy on EFL university students’ reading comprehension skills: main idea, inference & critical thinking, written expression and vocabulary in context. In order to achieve the aims of the study and verify its hypotheses, the sample of study consists of 60 students have been randomly selected from Tikrit University/ collage of education for humanities / department of English /second stage during the academic year 2025-2026. It is divided into two equal groups experimental and control groups. The two groups are equalized in their parents’ attainment level, ages, their scores in previous year, and their achievement in the pretest. The researchers himself and the instructional material for a period of eight weeks have taught the two groups. The experimental group has been taught according to Visualization mental strategy, and the control group taught by using conventional method. An achievement test has been constructed validated, and applied to the two groups. The results showed that using Visualization mental strategy is more effective than using the conventional method for developing story reading comprehension skills.
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