The Impact of Negotiated Syllabus on the EFL Learners’ Writing Ability and Self-Esteem

Journal of Teaching English Lnaguage Studies

مقاله 1، دوره 4، شماره 3، اردیبهشت 2016، صفحه 7-20   

نویسندگان

Seyedeh Fatemeh Saleh¹؛ Roohollah Maleki²

¹Department of English Language, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

²Department of English Language, Shahid Sattari Aeronautical University of Science and Technology

چکیده

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of negotiated syllabus on
developing EFL learners’ writing ability and self-esteem. To do so, first Nelson
proficiency test was administered to 90 participants to select intermediate homogenous
learners. The scores were analyzed and the mean was obtained. Then one standard
deviation above and below the mean was considered as a technique to homogenize the
participants. Therefore, 61 learners were selected as homogeneous intermediate
participants for this study. The learners were divided into experimental group (n = 30) and
control group (n = 31). A writing test and self-esteem questionnaire (SEI) as pre-tests were
given to both groups in order to determine their writing ability and level of self-esteem
before starting the treatment course. The control group received conventional writing
instruction but the experimental group experienced writing instruction based on negotiated
syllabus. At the end of the course, the learners in both groups took a writing test and self –
esteem questionnaire as post-test to find out which group had performed significantly
better than the other. Independent samples t-test found a statistically significant difference
in writing scores for experimental and control groups on the post-test favoring the
experimental. Besides, t-test found a statistically significant difference in self-esteem
scores between the two experimental and control groups on the post-test in favor of the
experimental. Thus, the findings of present study indicated that writing ability and selfesteem
were more significantly affected in light of the treatment via negotiated syllabus.

کلیدواژه‌ها

syllabus؛ negotiated syllabus؛ writing ability and self-esteem

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