The Effect of User-Friendly Texts vs. Impersonal and Hybrid Texts on the Reading Comprehension Ability of Iranian EFL Learners مقالة

مؤلف: Faghih، Esmail ؛ Kharaghani، Naeemeh ؛

English Language Pedagogy and Practice Spring 2008 - Number 2 ISC (‎15 صفحة - من 35 إلی 49 )

الکلمات المفتاحية: User Friendly Texts Impersonal Texts HybridTexts EFL Iranian Iranian EFL Learners ANOVA

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This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of Alzahra University were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, which were all followed by a reading comprehension test. Also, a questionnaire containing two questions was given to the participants in order to tap their own personal feelings. Series of one-way ANOVA displayed that the mean differences among the three groups were significant at 0.05 level and the user-friendly group outperformed the other ones.

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Impersonal and Hybrid Texts on the Reading Comprehension Ability of Iranian EFL Learners Esmail Faghih Alzahra University, Tehran Naeemeh Kharaghani Islamic Azad University - Mashhad and Qouchan Branch This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, which were all followed by a reading comprehension test. What are the effects of user-friendly texts on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners? Based on the above-mentioned research questions, three null hypotheses were formed as the following: H01: User-friendly texts do not have any significant effect on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. H02: Impersonal texts do not have any significant effect on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. H03: Hybrid texts do not have any significant effect on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. However, the two groups (user-friendly & hybrid) both performed almost the same on the test. However, the two groups (user-friendly & hybrid) both performed almost the same on the test. Therefore, it can be concluded that the user-friendly text promotes reading comprehension ability of the language learners. Considering the mean scores, it is found that impersonal texts would impede reading comprehension ability of the language learners. In sum, it could be concluded that the user-friendly features in a text (even in combination with the impersonal one) would increase the reading comprehension ability of Iranian EFL learners.

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