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

Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice

مقاله 3، دوره 1، شماره 2، مرداد 2008، صفحه 35-49   

نوع مقاله: Research Paper

نویسندگان

Esmail Faghih¹؛ Naeemeh Kharaghani²

¹Alzahra University, Tehran

²Islamic Azad University - Mashhad and Qouchan Branch

چکیده

     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 AlzahraUniversity 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.
 
 

کلیدواژه‌ها

User-Friendly Texts؛ Impersonal Texts؛ Hybrid Texts

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