AU - Al-Obaydi, Liqaa Habeeb Aboud. AU - Al-Bahadli, Khansaa Hassan AB - The current study aims at identifying intermediate school students’ difficulties in reading literary texts from teacher’s viewpoints, and identifying and classifying intermediate school students' difficulties in reading literary texts from student’s viewpoints. To achieve the aims, two samples were used, fifteen teachers and thirty students/forth preparatory, were used. The researchers constructed two types of questionnaires to determine the difficulties faced by intermediate school students from both teachers and students points of view. The items of the questionnaires have been collected on the basis of the related literature, interviews, the open ended questionnaire, the information found in the teacher's guide, previous studies which deal with teaching techniques and experts’ opinions. In the light of the results obtained, recommendations which are concerned with teachers and students are put forward. (Published abstract) http://search.shamaa.org/abstract_en.gif ID - 127960 OP - pp. 43-52 T1 - Investigating Iraqi EFL intermediate school students’ difficulties in reading literary texts [Article] UL - 1 http://search.shamaa.org/fulltext.gif https://www.iasj.net/iasj/article/140750 Full text (PDF)