Effectiveness of the semiotic strategy of teaching English in developing reading comprehension skills

Abstract

This study aimed at finding out the effectiveness of the semiotic strategy in English language in developing reading comprehension skills among the basic stage students. The quasi-experimental design was used in this study by choosing randomly two groups control group which studied by using the traditional way and experimental group which studied by using the semiotic strategy, the study sample was chosen intentionally from the tenth-grade students from Bent Addi Secondary School belonging to Al Jamea’a Directorate in Amman. The number of students in the total sample was 59 students who were distributed to 29 students for the experimental group, and 30 students for the control group. To achieve the study objectives was developed is reading comprehension skills test. Also, the researcher verified the validity and the reliability of the test.