The Effect of Elaboration Strategy on Developing EFL Reading Comprehension Skills Among Faculty of Education Students

The present study investigated the effect of elaboration strategy on developing some EFL reading comprehension skills among Faculty of Education students. The design of the study was pre-post one experimental group design. The study participants consisted of 30 students selected from second year students enrolled at the English section in the academic year 2020-2021 at Faculty of Education, Benha University at the second term. The instruments and materials of the study were: an EFL reading comprehension skills checklist including six main skills and 20 sub-skills, an EFL reading comprehension skills pre-posttest and a rubric for scoring it and text modification strategies based program. The EFL reading comprehension skills test was administrated to the participants then they were taught inference as a text modification strategy. After that, they were post-tested using the EFL reading comprehension skills test. The findings of the study revealed that EFL reading comprehension skills were enhanced due to the use of elaboration strategy for developing EFL reading comprehension skills among second year EFL majors.