The link between students' knowledge of literature and their success of literature in basic education institutions

Abstract

The current research aims to: Knowing the literary awareness of fourth-stage students in the Arabic language departments in the faculties of basic education.

Acquisition of modern literature for students of Arabic language departments in the faculties of basic education.

The relationship between literary awareness and academic achievement in the subject of modern literature among students of Arabic language departments in the faculties of basic education.

• The researcher adopted the descriptive correlational approach, because it is the appropriate approach for the nature of the objectives of the current research.


• The research community consisted of (1279) male and female students. The sample chose a simple random drawing of (130) fourth-stage students in the College of Basic Education, Al-Mustansiriya University for the academic year (2022_2023).


• The researcher adopted two research tools, the first tool represented by (literary awareness scale), which in its final form consisted of (30) items according to (3) fields, and the second tool represented by (the achievement test), which in its final form consisted of (50) items by (30) paragraphs of objective questions (multiple choice) and (20) paragraphs of essay questions.


• The researcher used the statistical means, the t-test for two independent samples, to test the significance of the differences between the averages of literary awareness and the achievement test of the research sample.

After analyzing the data, the following results were reached:

• The students of the fourth stage in the Arabic language departments in the faculties of basic education suffer from a weakness in their literary awareness.

In the light of these results, the researcher recommended a number of recommendations:

Increasing focus on presenting the concepts of literature and trying to bring them closer to the students’ minds and encourage them to familiarize themselves with the well-known literary genres that are close to daily circulation. And as a complement to the current research, the researcher suggests the following: Conducting a study to identify the impact of literary activities on developing literary awareness.