Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities

The study aims to investigate the effect of the Eclectic Method on EFL Intermediate school students’ achievement in writing through finding out:
1. The average level of the EFL second year intermediate school students’ achievement in writing.
2. Whether there is any significant difference between the achievement of the experimental group and that of the control group, in the posttest.
3. Finding out whether there is any significant difference between the students' achievement at the recognition and the production levels, of the posttest.
These aims have been achieved through verifying the following hypotheses:
1. The mean scores of the EFL second year intermediate school students’ achievement is within the theoretical mean scores of achievement in writing.
2. There is no significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group’s achievement and that of the control group’s achievement, in the posttest.
3. There is no significant difference between the mean scores of the students’ performance at the recognition level and that at the production level, of the posttestTo verify the hypotheses of this study, a sample of sixty female students who represent 18% of its original population have been randomly selected from the second year intermediate school students in Zubaida Intermediate School for Girls, and divided them into two equal groups, i.e. experimental and control groups. Both groups are equalized in their ages, parents’ academic attainment, and students’ scores in the pretest. The two groups have been taught the same material, English for Iraq, 2nd Intermediate Student’s Book, by using the Eclectic Method for the experimental group and the traditional method for the control group. An achievement test of five questions has been constructed, validated, its reliability is obtained, and its items have been analyzed and then applied to the two groups of the study. The collected data has been statistically analyzed and the obtained results are as follows:
1. There is a significant difference between the students’ average level of achievement in writing and the theoretical level of achievement, and in favour of the former.
2. There is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group and that of the control group’s achievement in the posttest, and in favour of the experimental group.
3. There is no significant difference in the mean scores of the students’ achievement at the recognition level and that at the production level, of the posttest.
Finally, in the light of the obtained results, a number of conclusions, recommendations, and suggestions have been put forward for future work.

The study aims at revealing the rhetorical difficulties of teaching English novel to the third grade from the instructors' perspectives at the English Department College of Education for Humanities Tikrit and Kirkuk Universities.
In order to achieve the aim of the study, a questionnaire has been constructed and distributed to 15 teachers who are teaching English novel to third year students of English Department in the Colleges of Education for humanities at Tikrit and Kirkuk Universities, to find out the nature of the difficulties that face teachers in teaching novel.
The population are 25 teachers who teach English novel to the third year students at English Department Colleges of Education for Humanities in Tikrit and Kirkuk Universities, whereas the sample 15 teachers.
The questionnaire contains (50) items. The face and content validity of the questionnaire has been ascertained. This study is limited to teaching the Victorian novels
1. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte
2. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
The face and the content validity of the questionnaire have been ascertained.
Through the analysis of the results of the questionnaire, it has been found out that the teachers face many rhetorical difficulties in teaching English novel and these difficulties can be categorized into two kinds as follows:
1. Difficulty in understanding rhetorical.
2. Difficulty in teaching a rhetorical.
In the light of the obtained results, it is recommended and concluded that rhetorical aspect of novel should be concentrated, explained, analyzed to students.

With analysing The Simpsons, the following paper aims at clarifying the ideology of postmodernity and how this literary work exposes and confronts them. The paper analyses the text according to the postmodern techniques and strategie; intertextuality, hyper-reality, and fragmentation. The Simpsons, a popular cartoon comedy in the USA and worldwide, is intended to show the values of damaged American families. The Simpsons’ postmodern techniques have established it as one of the most significant shows. Throughout The Simpsons, readers get to see a variety of characters. This work shows essentially every element of North American society. Finally, almost anybody who has viewed The Simpson the least once in his\her life will find that it presents predictions which have received the corresponding traction. The Simpsons has become a routine dependency on subconsciously predicting actual events.

This study deals with analyzing bias in selected American political speeches from a pragmatic perspective. The study aims at finding out the pragmatic strategies that American politicians exploit to issue bias in their political speeches. For the sake of clarification, this aim can be sub-divided into the following aims: (a) Specifying the speech acts that are utilized by American politician to issue bias, (b) Showing to what extent American politician exploit Grice’s maxims to realize bias, (c)Shedding light on the categories of presupposition that are available in the selected data, (d) Identifying the impoliteness strategies and sub- strategies that are used to issue bias in the political speeches uttered by an American politician, and (e) Specifying the tropes that are utilized to realize bias in the selected data. To achieve the aims of the study and test the validity of its hypotheses, the following procedures are adopted: three random speeches for an American politician have been selected to be analysed according to the adopted eclectic model to identify the types of bias and the pragmatic strategies utilized to issue bias in the selected data. At the end of the research, there are the major findings that the researchers arrived at.

Philip Larkin is one of the prominent post-modern poets who tackled with various themes in his poems. He approached his ideas directly or indirectly. This study aims to analyze selected poems of Philip Larkin as one of the most vital figures of English poetry. The analysis of the poems is achieved on the basis of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory which is regarded as a great criterion used in modern English literature. Psychoanalysis is a well-known method that helps critics and readers to interpret and dive deep beneath the meanings of the lines of the poems to get familiar with the unconscious mind of poets.