Teaching English Literary Text by Using Personal Response Approach for Iraqi EFL Students

Abstract

Personal response approach  is an approach of teaching that help and gives the students chance to learn, practice and solve their problem in learning English. It is one of the literary criticism approach in which readers can involve their personal opinions, feelings, and background knowledge to create meanings of the text. The Current study aims to  investigate the influence of teaching English literary text by using Personal Response Approach for Iraqi EFL Students. To conduct the study and fulfill its aim, it is hypothesized that, there is no statistically significant difference between  the mean scores of the  experimental groups’ literary text ability in pre- posttest. To achieve the aim and confirm its hypothesis the experimental design which is Non- Randomized Experimental Group Pretest- Posttest Design is used. The sample of the current study consists of (60) students who have been chosen from fifth scientific stage at Ibn -Al-Muaatum secondary school for boys in Tikrit. (30) students have been chosen to be the experimental group, and (30) students have been chosen to be control group. Both groups have been equalized in such variables levels of educational of parents, testees age, English grades achievement in fourth stage, and the pre-test of both groups. To analyze the obtained data, different statistical means have been used T-test, weighted mean and percentile mean to measure the students’ performance. The results obtained by the researcher indicate that there are statistically significant differences between students' performance in the pre-experimental test and their performance in the post-test in favor of the personal response approach. The researcher has written a number of recommendations and suggested a number of proposals for future studies.