The aim of the study is to identify the materials used for teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading and the difficulties in selecting materials that cater to learners’ needs   and  abilities.  It  is  also  aimed  to  analyse  teachers’  views  on  English  Language Teaching  (ELT) materials in reading lessons and the principles considered in selecting or constructing  reading materials. Qualitative method was applied in this study. The data were collected through  pre-interview, reading lesson plans and post interview which involved three  English  as  Foreign   Language  (EFL)  Libyan  teachers  from  Libyan  international schools. The data was analysed using  the semantic analysis. The finding showed that the common  reading  materials  used  by  English   as  a  Foreign  Language  (EFL)  teachers  are reading  texts,  quizzes,  pictures,  and  music   videos.  It  was  proven  that  the  factors  that .....

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This research aimed to propose a new multi-criteria decision-making method called “Decision by Opinion Score Method” (DOSM), which was based on the idea of an ideal solution that has been  utilized for reference comparison. This research used the TOPSIS method to design DOSM because both  depended on an ideal solution to solve the MCDM problem. Meanwhile, TOPSIS consisted of a series of  mathematical operations that has several problems, and DOSM was intended to solve these problems.   DOSM rank was obtained from direct aggregation, or compromise rank, or grey relational analysis.  The case study in a computer network was used in this research which has 9 alternatives (A1- A9)  and four criteria. Three experts were involved in the evaluation for the reference comparison  process to obtain the best alternative. The result of A9 obtained 88.8% in terms of ranking and it  was the best alternative for experts 1 and 3. For expert 2, A1 was ranked as the worst alternati.....

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