• ABEER AL-GHAZO

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The purpose of this article is to investigate the Effect of SQ3R and semantic mapping
Strategies on reading comprehension Learning among Jordanian University Students. The
participants of this research consists of two classes of English Course , Level one with 60
students, 30 in the control group and 30 in the experimental group. The students were belong to
Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences ,Department of English Language and Literature .All
students were considered as low proficiency in English language due to their scores obtained in
the English language placement test conducted by the university at the beginning of each
academic year ; the age range of the participants was between 18 and 35. To answer the
questions of the study, An achievement reading comprehension test is used as a pre-test and a
post-test to both: the experimental and the control group with some modification related to the
ways each group is taught accordingly. A multiple-choice reading comprehension test of twenty
questions is constructed to assess the students` comprehension of the reading text . Proper
statistical analyses were used to analyze the results. The results of the study showed that
semantic mapping and SQ3R strategies group performed better than the control group in the
post test(comprehension test ) since the mean score obtained by experimental group (.58) is
higher than the mean score obtained by control group (.50).

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