The Attitudes of pupils towards syntactic complexity in my book of english: the case of first year secondary school pupils at Ferhati Hmida Oum El Bouaghi
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2023
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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The Majority of Algerian EFL learners face some challenges with understanding complex syntactic structures in the given texts during English class which influence their ability to understand and comprehend texts. Shedding light on syntactic complexity, only few studies were conducted in relation to reading, since the majority of syntactic complexity studies were in relation to writing. This research aims at investigating pupils' attitudes towards syntactic complexity in reading passages. Accordingly, it is hypothesized that syntactic complexity would affect students' reading comprehension negatively. Methodologically, in order to validate the present hypothesis, a qualitative and quantitative method are administered under the descriptive study for collecting and analyzing the gathered information. Moreover, one data collection tool is chosen to verify the validation of this assumption. A pupil's questionnaire was designed and given to first-year secondary school pupils to gather their attitudes about their experiences with reading comprehension difficulties. Results showed that syntactic complexity affects pupil's ability to read and hinder their comprehensibility. Based on these findings, a number of pedagogical implications are served to pupils, with reference to some constraints which plugged this work from being accurate.
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Reading; Syntactic complexity