The Effect of Using the Five-Fingers Strategy on Developing Reading Comprehension for the Jordanian EFL Ninth-Grade Students
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Five-Fingers, reading comprehension, EFL Jordanian studentsAbstract
Objectives: This study investigated the effect of using the five-fingers strategy on developing reading Comprehension for Jordanian EFL Ninth- Grade Students.
Method: Two groups and a quasi-experimental design were used. The researcher randomly assigned two complete sections of grade 9 from Al-Hassan Bin Al-Haytham school for boys, with 30 students in the experimental group in the first section and 30 students in the control group in the second section. A pre-/post reading comprehension test was designed to achieve the study's objective. Also, the experimental group was taught using the five-fingers strategy, while the control group was instructed using the traditional teaching method suggested in the Teacher's Book.
Results: The results of the study indicated that th five-fingers strategy improved students' reading comprehension.
Conclusion: The reading comprehension of the participants were improved by the five- fingers strategy-based instructional strategy. When five-fingers strategy was used in the classroom, the students' rearing comprehension increased. In addition, five-fingers strategy-based instructional strategy increased student performance on the post-test compared to the pre-test, indicating that it has an impact on improving the teaching/learning process and expanding the teaching content in the MOE textbook.
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