Abstract:
This study aimed at investigating how can independent reading
enhance the students’level of achievement,It also aimed at exposing
teachers’beliefs,understandings and practices around the classroom use
of independent reading.as well as to implant the idea of independent
reading itself in students.while a review of the literacy research reveals
numerous studies linking increased reading to gains in various aspects
of reading achievement,questions remain regarding specific nature of
the relationship between independent reading and student reading
success. .A number of statistical techniques were adopted to analyze
the results which reflected a noticeable improvement on the part of the
experiment group.a pre-test exam was adopted to categorize the sample
into two distinct groups,namely experiment and control droup.The pretest
exam heavily concentrated on exploring the students’knowledge of
independent reading.the population of the study was sixty
undergraduate students from sudan university of science and
technology.the study results revealed that the readers who read
independently perform better and score higher marks in tests.
Questionnaire for the tutors was also used as data collection
techniques.judging by the results attained from the pre-and post tests,it
could be safely admitted that the three hypotheses drawn out in the
present research have been satisfactorily confirmed.The findings
revealed that students’ level of achievement can be developed through
intensive classroom independent reading program.The researcher
concluded by some recommendations and suggestions for further
studies
