چکیده:
This study investigated the effects of three methods of teaching, including multimedia, shadowing, and traditional method on Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' reading comprehension ability. Seventy Iranian EFL female learners, aged 15 to 17, who were studying at schools in Qazvin participated in this study. Based on the results of the Key English Test (KET), the participants were homogenized in terms of their English proficiency level. The participants were divided into three groups. Each group was randomly assigned to a different treatment condition. At the end of the treatment period, a reading comprehension test was administered. A one-way ANOVA was used to analyze the obtained data. The results indicated a significant difference between the multimedia and traditional groups in favor of multimedia instruction. However, there was no significant difference between the multimedia and shadowing groups, nor was there any significant difference between the shadowing and the traditional groups. The findings may have implications for learners, teachers, and syllabus designers.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Effect of Multimedia Instruction and Shadowing on EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension 1 Abbas Ali Zarei Associate professor, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran Fatemeh Jahanbakhsh MA, Islamic Azad University, Iran This study investigated the effects of three methods of teaching, including multimedia, shadowing, and traditional method on Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' reading comprehension ability.
g. , Commander & Guerrero, 2013; Deacon & Murphey, 2001; Murphey, 2001a; Murphey, 2001b; Nakanishi & Ueda, 2011; Shiki, 2010; Zakeri, 2014a ; Zakeri, 2014b) have focused on shadowing, and several studies (Gómez & Bangs, 2004; Chun & Plass, 1996; Hallet, 1999; Khamkhien, 2012; Moqbel & Rao, 2013; Nim Park & Son, 2009) have investigated the effect of computer and multimedia on learning and teaching language.
This study is an attempt to fill part of this gap; it aims to compare the effects of three important ways; multimedia, shadowing and traditional method of teaching reading on EFL students' reading comprehension.
More specifically, the present study is an attempt to answer the following research question: Which of the instructional techniques (multimedia-based instruction, shadowing, and the traditional method of teaching) is more effective on Iranian EFL students' reading comprehension?
1 Results The research question sought to investigate the effects of three different methods of teaching reading (multimedia, shadowing and traditional) on Iranian EFL students' reading comprehension ability.
The other teaching method used in the study was shadowing, which had good results compared with the traditional method of teaching, although its effect on students' reading comprehension was not statistically significant."