The Effectiveness of CoRT1(Breadth) Program in Developing the Achievement of 1st Year University Students in English Reading Comprehension

Abstract

   The present study aims at examining the effect of CoRT1(Breadth) in developing the achievement of college students in English reading comprehension. This study is limited to the first-year students in the department of  English at the College of Education for Humanities/  University of Anbar during the first semester of the academic  year 2015-2016. It also deals with the first section of CoRT program as an independent variabl.  To achieve the aim of the present study, it is hypothesized that there is no significant differences between the mean scores of the achievement of the  first group who has been provided with CoRT1(Breadth) and the second group who has not provided with the same program. To verify the mentioned hypothesis,
a sample of (51) first-year students from the department of  English at the College of Education for Humanities/  University of Anbar has been randomly chosen and distributed to two treatment groups: experimental group (25) and control group (26).  The students of both groups are equalized in terms of certain variables. The experiment has lasted  six weeks during which the researcher himself has taught the two groups to control the teacher variable. At the end of the experiment, students have been subjected to an achievement test in reading comprehension which has been constructed by the researcher under the supervision of a number of instructors and specialists in this field. By using t-test formula for two independent samples,