Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ministry of Higher Education Jazan university

faculty of Sciences & Arts – Alddarb (Girls)
Department of English Jazan university

An Investigation of The Effects of Reading

Feminist Literature During EFL Classrooms on
Learner's Proficiency
Researchers:
Fatima Ahmed Fagih
Abeer Mohammed Mushafa
Aishah Mufrah Mohammed
Taghred Mohmed Mnoer
Layla Jaber Johan
Sharifah Yahya Muharish
Hoda Marei' Hassan
Sarah Abdullah Albaraq
Introduction
Feminist literature is defined as fiction, nonfiction, drama, or poetry that
promotes feminist aims of defining, creating, and protecting equal civil,
political, economic, and social rights for women. It frequently presents
women's roles as unequal to those of males, notably in terms of position,
privilege, and power, and it typically paints the repercussions to women,
men, families, communities, and society as unfavorable. In the broadest
sense, "Feminist Literature" is a reflection of feminism's philosophy: that
women are equal to men. However, it is much more challenging,
especially for women, who may show s dancing for other women who do
not agree with their vision of bal "feminist" and "feminine.“
This way the once indistinguishable fields of literature and language
studies were dissociated and the role of literature in language teaching
with its emphasis on form and correctness at the time was put under a
question mark for a number of reasons which were to sojourn the
mysterious land of ELT for a matter of a century. McKay (1982) contends
"it is easy to view any attention to literature as unnecessary"
Research Questions
1What is the importance of reading feminist literature during
(EFL) classroom?

2What is the effect of reading feminist literature in classroom on

(EFL)?

3 How to integrate literature into the (EFL) classroom?

4What are the suitable approaches to teaching literature in (EFL)

classroom?
Research Objectives:
•To investigate the importance of reading feminist literature
during (EFL) classroom.

•To realize the effective type of reading feminist literature in a

classroom of (EFL) learners.

•To recognize that literature has been one viable resource for
fostering such learning of foreign languages habits in EFL/ESL
learners.
•To encourage self-knowledge and self-evaluations well as
establish a sense of personal value in learners and creativity
Significance of the Study :
This research study could provide beneficial information
about reading feminist literature and how it plays an
important role whether inside the classroom or in the
society. The study tries to investigate the importance
reading feminist literature. In addition to realize the
effective of reading feminist literature in a classroom of
(EFL) learners.
 Literature Review
The literature review can be a simple summary of the sources
or an organization pattern which combines both summary and
synthesis. In this chapter there is the theoretical part which will
be summarized some of the theories that are related to feminist
literature and the previous related studies which will present
other related studies about feminist literature.
-The Importance of Teaching Literature in English language
(ELT) classrooms.
-The Integration of Literature into the Language Classrooms.
-Approaches to Teaching Literature in ELT Classrooms.
Methodology :
the researchers used the questionnaire which used as a quantitative method.
We used these methods as a way of collecting data, by applying this method
on the 54 participants. This study was conducted in Saudi Arabia.
Particularly, it addressed the students in ALDarb University College for Girls,
department of English. The instrument that was used to collect data in this
study is a questionnaire. We analyze results by using online Survey, and
Excel program to find the percentage and the frequency of the
questionnaire. The instrument for data collection was an online based
questionnaire conducted by using Monkey survey. Also we used distributing
papers.
Findings:
There are many effects of reading feminist literature. The research attempt
to answer the research question. The findings of the collected data from the
questionnaire concluded that a clear majority of students read feminist
literature very often. Meaning that they spend a considerable amount of
time reading and learning about the feminist literature. As a result of
spending more time on reading, students will be able to develop their
knowledge in this subject. According to the responses obtained through the
questionnaire, it can be evidenced that all of the students who participate in
the study said that reading feminist literature improves students'
knowledge and develop in both academic and social levels.
Conclusion
In conclusion, through this project , we
concluded reading feminist literature
And we all agreed that it is critical and
useful for us, In general, through our
reading of this type of literature, we can
learn and acquire new knowledge
through which we develop language and
skills.
Thank You