PE 45

كارشناسي ارشد

آموزش زبان انگليسي

پيام نور رشت

20/11/93

شهين شيخ

محمد آقاجانزاده

focus of form , focused tasks , input fooding , planned focus on form , tasks , task-based language teaching

شيخ،شهين , آقاجانزاده،محمد

It is generally believed that tasks play important roles in language learning. Task is important because it affects the learner`s active involvement and attitude toward learning. In Iran, English is studied as a foreign language (FL) and, therefore, not used as the everyday means of communication for most people and as a foreign language environment it fails to provide learners with opportunities for genuine communication in the target language. The present study was conducted in order to find out whether the planned focused tasks which focused on form through input flooding had significant effects on Iranian EFL learners` reading comprehension ability. For this purpose, 90 learners, on the basis of the Oxford Placement Test as a proficiency test were selected from among 120 learners. Then they were randomly divided into two groups, experimental group and controlled group. The learners in the experimental group received focused tasks (FG) while in controlled group, the learners received unfocused tasks (NFG). To answer the research question, the collected data were put into the Statistical Software for Social Sciences (SPSS 20). This study primarily used experimental comparison-group pretest/posttest design to gain broader perspectives on EFL learners` reading comprehension abilities. The data was gathered through a reading comprehension test used as pretest and post-test, in multiple-choice form. The results showed that focused tasks significantly improved EFL learners` reading comprehension ability.

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