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The Effect of Storyboards Technique on EFL Sixth-Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension

  • Bara’a Mohammad Rababah
  • Abdallah Bani Abdelrahman
Issue: Vol. 6 No. 3 (2024)
Pages: 553 -573
Published: 2024-08-26
DOI: 10.53286/arts.v6i3.2084
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate how storyboards technique affect the reading comprehension of sixth-grade Jordanian EFL students. The participants of study were 30 female students, who were split equally and at random into two groups: the experimental and control. A pre-/post-test was utilized as the study's instrument for both the control and experimental groups. A quasi-experimental design was followed. The experimental group was taught utilizing the storyboards technique in order to fulfill the objective of the study, whereas the control group received instruction using a conventional teaching method. The findings demonstrated that the use of storyboards technique enhanced students' comprehension of the texts they were reading.

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English as a foreign language Reading comprehension Storyboards technique Education and Learning

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