Innovation in Language Learning

The research aims to find out: The effect of using Robin' strategy (SQ3R)  on EFL Iraqi university students' performance in reading comprehension in Tikrit university college of education. Finding out whether there is a significant difference between the mean score of experimental group and the mean score of the control group. These aims have been achieved through  verifying the following hypotheses

1. There apositive effect on using Robin's strategy on the students' achievement in reading comprehension .
2. There is a significant differences between pre-test and post test scores in the experimental group
3. There is a significant differences between pre-test and post test scores in the control group .

To verify the hypotheses of the reseach, a sample of 60 students  ( male  and female) have randomly selected from the second year of the department of English at college of education for humanities university of Tikrit, and divided into two equal group, the experimental and control groups, both groups are equalized in their ages, their parents' education level, students' scores in English reading comprehension for previous year (2016-2017)' and their scores in pre-test the two groups have been taught the same material  of reading comprehension passage by the researcher herslf by using (SQ3R) technique 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, its items are analyzed and  then applied to the two groups of study. The collected data has been  statistically analyzed and in the light of obtained results, a number of   conclusion, recommendations, and suggestions have been put forward.

Keywords: Roles, Robin strategy;