• Rasha Talib Abdualameer

  Author

• Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed Ismail

  Author

Aim of this study, is to examine the effects of narrative and expository text types on reading
comprehension performance of Thirty first stage secondary students studying at an Iraqi school
in the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Apparently, this is the only Iraqi school in Malaysia under the
supervision of the Ministry of Education, Iraq. Reading comprehension tests were prepared
according to text types in accordance to the Iraqi curriculum and were used as data collection
tool of the study. t-test was administered when comparing reading comprehension marks
according to text types. Findings indicate that students understand and perform better on
narrative texts compared to expository texts in terms of reading comprehension.

• pdf