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Abstract
This study aimed at investigating the effects of repeated reading strategies on developing oral reading fluency- with its three components: accuracy, rate and prosody- and reading comprehension among EFL prospective teachers. Subjects were 60 third year students enrolled in the English Section, Faculty of Education, Minufiya University, during the second semester of the 2008- 2009 academic year. Two tools were developed: an oral reading fluency test and a reading comprehension test. Both tests were used as pre-post tests. Also, a program based on repeated reading strategies was developed by the researcher. The program consisted of eight lessons. Each lesson was handled in three daily sessions a week. The time allocated for each session was 60 minutes. Subjects were chosen at random and divided into two groups: the experimental group (N = 30) and the control group (N = 30). Both groups were pre-tested before conducting the experiment. The experiment lasted for two months. During this period, the experimental group students were exposed to the repeated reading strategies program. However, subjects of the control group were taught in the regular way. Upon the completion of the experiment, both groups were post-tested. The data obtained were statistically analyzed. Results revealed that the experimental group students made significant gains in oral reading fluency with its three components and reading comprehension. Thus, the repeated reading strategies program proved to be effective in developing students’ oral reading fluency and reading comprehension.