Abstract:
Abstract: Teaching reading comprehension is very essential to develop learners' English language. This paper was concerned with investigating pre-reading activities to improve Reading Comprehension in EFL Classes. It aims at showing the needs of pre-reading activities in teaching reading in EFL classes. It aims also at increasing EFL students' motivation by using these activities in reading comprehension. The study adopted the experimental analytical method. The data gathering tools is reading comprehension test (pre- and post-test) consist of (10) items (4 options for each item) which were distributed (50 copies) to students. The SPSS program is used to analyze the data, by using T-test. As the result of the analysis, it was found that the pre-reading and post-reading activities in EFL classes shouldn’t be limited to the development of vocabulary building, but should lead to the internal improvement of reading ability. Understanding the student’s needs and coaching the student to become a real learner are the typical gifts that many have developed in earlier pedagogical practice. So, teachers should dive in different activities of pre -reading and then encourage students to these activities as well. In the tight of these findings the study recommends Teachers should encourage students to infer the meaning of word rather than looking them up in a dictionary, and EFL learners should be motivated through using different reading activities.
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