Exploring the Culture of Enjoying Reading Literary Texts.

Abstract

This study was intended to uncover the difficulties and issues that EFL student face in developing the culture or habit of reading.Thanks to interests in the context of English as a foreign language is the reason for the decline of most students Interest in reading literature, For this purpose, the study is To investigate the situation, this study used the questionnaire with 100 english students from the department of English at Ibn Khaldoun University. The data were subsequently analyzed and interpreted qualitatively and quantitatively. based on the total Finding, it seems that there is a relationship between students' lack of interest in reading literary text and current teaching learning practices for reading in particular and English literary texts in general. In the end, some Pedagogical considerations have been proposed in relation to curricula, teaching Learning approach and goals, adopting the text as a condition and an essential member of dealing with students’weak points.