Investigating the impact of teaching abstractive summarization techniques on enhancing the students’ Sum-Up tasks skills
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2021
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Université Oum El Bouaghi
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The present study is an investigation in the field of teaching and learning English in
Algeria. it has been, purposefully, consented to conduct an assessment on the importance of teaching summarization techniques to 1st year in EFL classroom. Thus, the overall aim of this descriptive research is to investigate the benefits of teaching abstractive techniques in the university classroom and to explore the students' attitudes towards the use of this pedagogical tool. Two chapters constitutes the present research work, chapter one sheds the light on what is summarization , approaches and challenges. Chapter two is a practical part, it aims at collecting data, analyzing and interpreting them. It consists, in one hand, to provide information about students and on the other hand, provide information about the status and usefulness of teaching abstractive summarization techniques EFL classroom. For this purpose, therefore, seventy eight 1st year LMD students at the department of English situated at the University of Algiers, Om Bouaghi were solicited through two research instruments, a pre and post-tests, and a questionnaire. From the students' results obtained from both pre and post- tests. It was shown that, there is a noticed improvement and enhancement in their Summarization skills i.e Abstractive techniques do enhance the students' summarization skills. Students by ignorance choose free summarization ,neglecting the fact that they face many problems like the fully understanding to given text . In addition to the luck of extracting the main ideas and key words and context clues using.
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Summarization approoches, Abstraction sumarization technique