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An Investigation Of Efl Undergraduate Students' Performance In Cognitive Poetic Schema, Prof.Nahida Taha Majeed (Ph.D.), Prof.Shatha Kathim Al-Saadi (M.A.)

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

English cognitive poetics could help undergraduate students achieve a better understanding of what they do and why they are doing something. It also helps them find new ways of doing things and improving old ways that they have. Hence, this study intends to fill a gap of information about the way Iraqi college students process English poetry. This study aims at: 1. Pin-pointing the components of cognitive poetic schema (CPS) used by EFL undergraduate students for interpreting English poems. 2. Identifying students' level of performance in English CPS. 3. Finding whether there are any significant differences among students' performance in …