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Reading comprehension has several levels. Each level includes a group of skills that can be divided into levels. These levels are: Deductive Comprehension Level, Critical Comprehension Level, Taste Comprehension Level and Creative Comprehension Level. This study is concerned with developing the skills of these high levels through a combination strategy based on Extensive and intensive reading to develop reading comprehension levels for preparatory stage female students in Iraq. This strategy is based on four pillars: a- The students should take responsibility to choose what text to read, study and analyze, aiming to enable them to reach the required reading comprehension levels. b- The students should choose the books they prefer to read without imposing texts or books on them. c- When choosing books the students should read, many criteria should be relied on to seek guidance on the selection. Some of these criteria are: chosen books' compliance with society values, variety of topics, commitment to a minimum number of books to read, commitment to a minimum number of pages per book to read, as well as being an interesting, easy, short and diverse book. d- Using modern assessment methods to assess the students' comprehension of the text they have read. In this regard, the students should prepare written reports about the texts they have read. Also, teacher-students and students-colleagues meetings should be held to discuss the read texts. Therefore, the assessment method used here is different from the conventional method which is written exams. The study problem has been determined as weakness of reading comprehension skills among preparatory stage female students, lack of modern strategies to develop these skills; such as a combination strategy based on Extensive and intensive reading. In order to solve this problem, the study has answered the following questions: 1. What are the suitable reading comprehension levels and skills for preparatory stage female students in Iraq? 2. What are the bases of constructing a combination strategy based on Extensive and intensive reading to develop reading comprehension levels among preparatory stage female students in Iraq? 3. What is the combination strategy based on Extensive and intensive reading to develop reading comprehension levels among preparatory stage female students in Iraq? 4. How effective is the new teaching strategy? 5 How strong is the impact of the combination strategy based on Extensive and intensive reading on developing reading comprehension skills and levels in Arabic language among preparatory stage female students in Iraq for the experimental and the control groups in the test performed after the implementation on one hand, and in the experimental group in the tests performed before and after the implementation on the other hand? In order to reach answers for the above subsidiary questions, this study followed some steps as follows: 1- Determining the suitable reading comprehension levels and skills for preparatory stage female students in Iraq, making a list of these levels and skills, demonstrating them to a group of judges to determine their relative weights and reach their final forms, and formulating the reading comprehension skills test for preparatory stage female students in light of this list. 2- Determining combination strategy steps and procedures based on Extensive and intensive reading to develop reading comprehension levels for preparatory stage female students in Iraq, and constructing a list of these steps. 3- Determining bases for constructing a combination strategy based on Extensive and intensive reading to develop reading comprehension levels among preparatory stage female students in Iraq. 4- Constructing the combination strategy based on Extensive and intensive reading to develop reading comprehension levels among preparatory stage female students in Iraq, including strategy objectives, its content, activities, educational and assessment methods. 5- Measuring the effectiveness of the combination strategy based on Extensive and intensive reading to develop reading comprehension levels among preparatory stage female students. Some of the most important conclusions reached by the study: The effectiveness of the combination strategy based on Extensive and intensive reading to develop reading comprehension four levels as a whole among preparatory stage students is proven. The results have shown statistical variances of between the averages of students grades in the experimental and the control groups in the tests performed after the implementation on one hand, and between the experimental group in the tests performed before and after the implementation on the other hand, in favor of the after-implementation measure."
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