The Effect of Eclectic Teaching Strategies Utilizing British Poetry in Developing Students' Reading Proficiencies in English Language

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to reveal the effect of in developing students' reading proficiencies via poetic texts. The participants of the study are from first grade at the Faculty of Education for Humanities at the University of Anbar, Iraq. The first grade consists of two classes (A and B). Group A is taught via traditional method, and group B is taught via the eclectic method. Since English is a foreign language, the researcher used the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, which identify stages of proficiency, as opposed to achievement. Also, because they assess what individuals can and cannot do. This is regardless of where, when, or how the language was learned or acquired. These guidelines are not based on a particular linguistic theory or pedagogical method, and are intended for global assessment, for all these reasons the researcher used ACTFL to assess his students' reading proficiencies. The results revealed that utilizing eclectic reading strategies via poetry, with its aesthetic values, have developed the students reading proficiencies and the poems' texts have developed students' vocabularies as well