AbstractThe study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of using film versus book on
the comprehension of literary texts among Kurdish university students. The study also
investigated the factors influence the level of comprehension of Kurdish university
students. The participants of the current study consisted of 15 third-year Kurdish
students enrolled in the English department of the Faculty of Humanities at the
University of Zakho in Kurdistan, Iraq. The participants were divided into three
equivalent groups and subjected to three treatments wherein each group was put to
three different types of teaching approaches. The data collection procedure included
two retelling tests that were carried out at different periods of time in which the
participants retold a story through writing. The data procedure also included a
questionnaire that was designed to determine the factors that influence the
participants’ reading comprehension. The results obtained from both tests showed.....