The Effect of Using Short Stories on Undergraduate Students' Achievement in English Pronouns
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The current study majorly aims at :
1.identifying some short stories to be used as a technique for teaching English pronouns for undergraduate students.
2. finding out the effect of short stories on the achievement of undergraduate students in the various kinds of English pronouns.
The aims have been achieved through verifying a number of hypotheses. A sample of one hundred 3td year students has been chosen from the Department of English at the College of Education for Humanities of Kirkuk University. The sample is divided into two equal groups and subjected to a pre- test. The experimental group is taught English pronouns according to the technique of short stories whereas; the control group is taught the same instructional material according to the traditional method, i. e. without employing the technique of short stories.An achievement test has been constructed, validated, its reliability obtained, its items analyzed and then applied to the two involved groups of students at the end of the instruction period. The required data are collected and analyzed statistically. Results show that the technique of short stories is an effective in teaching English pronouns to college students. Finally, the study ends up with a number of conclusions and recommendations.
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