PE 55

كارشناسي ارشد

آموزش زبان انگليسي

پيام نور رشت

20/06/93

فريدون وحداني

هدي ديوسر

وحداني،فريدون , ديوسر،هدي

This study investigated the effect of two schema enhancing techniques that are cultural nativization of short stories versus cultural preview of the stories on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian intermediate learners in Iran language Institute in Rasht. To achieve this goal, a sample population of 60 learners was homogenized out of 100 students and further divided into three groups. The questions to be answered were if nativization and cultural previewing could improve Iranian intermediate EFL learnersʹ reading comprehension. Also the perceptions of fifteen teachers towards cultural nativization versus the cultural previewing were asked. To answer the research questions, the One-Way ANOVA was run and a one-way analysis of variance for the quantitative dependent variable of reading comprehension scores was calculated. The independent variables included cultural nativization and cultural preview of the short story. Analysis of variance was used to test the hypothesis and to compare the means of the three groups’ reading comprehension tests. The results proved that nativization as well as previewing had a significant positive effect on Iranian intermediate EFL learnersʹ reading comprehension.

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