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Utilizing Inferencing Strategy for Developing EFL Reading Comprehension Skills Among Faculty of Education Students

• 2021
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Authors Shaimaa Hamdy; Fatma sadeq, Eman Mohamed, Mona Zaazaa
Keywords Text Modification – Inferencing strategy – EFL reading comprehension skills
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Abstract
The present study investigated the effectiveness of utilizing inferencing strategy in developing some EFL reading comprehension skills among Faculty of Education students. The design of the study was pre-post one experimental group design. The study sample consisted of 30 students selected from second year students enrolled at the English section in the academic year 2020-2021 at Faculty of Education, Benha University at the second term. The instruments and materials of the study were: an EFL reading comprehension skills checklist including six main skills and 20 sub-skills, an EFL reading comprehension skills pre-posttest and a rubric for scoring it and text modification strategies based program. The EFL reading comprehension skills test was administrated to the participants then they were taught using inferencing as a text modification strategy. After that, they were post-tested using the EFL reading comprehension skills test. The findings of the study revealed that EFL reading comprehension skills were developed due to the use of inferencing strategy for developing some EFL reading comprehension skills among second year students enrolled at English department Faculty of Education.