Text Classification and its Effect on EFL University Students&rsquo; Performance in Literary Analysis

Jasim, Zina Ismail; Ismail, Najwa Yaseen

doi:10.25130/Lang.9.4.P2.19

	Text Classification and its Effect on EFL University Students’ Performance in Literary Analysis
Journal of Language Studies
Volume 9, Issue 4, Part 2, December 2025, Pages 419-447 PDF (520.42 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.25130/Lang.9.4.P2.19
Authors
Zina Ismail Jasim; Najwa Yaseen Ismail
University of Tikrit, College of Education for Humanities, Department of English
Abstract
The current study aims at finding out the effect of text classification of EFL university students’ performance in literary analysis. The sample of the present study consists of 60 students from Department of English Language at College of Arts / University of Tikrit. Students are divided randomly into two groups: the experimental (EG) which represented in (Section B) and the control (CE) which represented in (Section A), each class consists of 30 students. Both groups are matched in terms of parental academic attainment, age, previous year scores in poetry and the+ pretest. The study has been lasted forten weeks during the first semester of the academic year 2024/2025. To achieve the aims and verify its’ hypotheses, Non-randomized Control Group Pretest and Post-test Design has been adoptedin this study. The collected data have been statistically analyzed by using different statistical means. The results indicate that the text classification has beensignificantly enhanced the performance of EFL university students’ literary analysis.
Keywords
Text ClassificationEFL Students; Literary Analysis; Experimental study

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