The Impact of Culture on EFL College Students Comprehension of Reading Text

The tendency for learning English leads to make any foreign learner eager to learn all thecomponents that have an effect on his/her comprehension of that widely used language. Culturalbackground is one of those components which has to great extent an active role in achieving abetter communication. The study aims at Finding out the effect of teaching culture on EFLcollege students achievement in reading comprehension as well as Developing EFL collegestudents skills in Reading Comprehension. A sample of 104 students ( each group consists of52) has been chosen from dept. of English/ College of education/ Karbalaa University. In orderto achieve the aim of the study, the researchers have utilized The Pre- test Post-test ControlGroup Design. An instruction for the experimental group using five reading comprehension testlasted for six weeks and it took place between the pre and post test. Whereas the control groupstaught the same texts but in the traditional way. Results reveal a significant difference in themean scores of the two groups on the benefit of the experimental one. Results also reveal asignificant difference in the mean scores of the experimental group in the pre and post test. In thelight of results, a number of conclusions are drawn.