The Evaluating OF Using Bilinguals And Monlingual EFL Learners in Reading Comprehension

The purpose of the study was to investigate the evaluating of using Bilinguals and Monlingual EFL Learners in reading comprehension. The research sample included 110 third grade three high school bilingual and monolingual participants studying in four different schools of Ahvaz were selected non-randomly. They took Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) and 60 of learners were assigned into four (i.e. bilingual and monolingual) groups. Then, the four groups were given a teacher-made pre-test of reading comprehension before the treatment to determine how well the participants know the contents. During an eight session courses, four groups covered eight passages selected from Read and Understand 3: (Betty Kirkpatrick and Rebecca Mok , 2008). Data were collected of the participants of the research sat for their post-test of reading comprehension which was the modified version of pre-test. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviations were estimated to describe and summarize the data. The obtained scores of four groups were processed through the application of the statistical software SPSS ,version 17.The researcher used One-way ANOVA method in order to analyze whether four groups of learners are different and to identify if there is any difference between the groups.Results showed that the reading comprehension of four groups improved and there was an important difference between the groups concerning reading comprehension post-test. the researcher concluded that monolinguals performed better than the simultaneous bilinguals and also female learners were more successful than the male learners. Implications suggest the findings of this research can be useful to teachers and learners who study reading comprehension in bilingual contexts.

Keywords:

Reading comprehension , Bilingual , Monolingual , One-way ANOVA