The Study and Evaluation of Main Current Trends and Approaches in Teaching Reading in ESP Courses at Islamic Azad University

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ELSCONF08_051

تاریخ نمایه سازی: 18 آذر 1399

Abstract:

This study investigated the current trends and approaches in teaching and assessment of reading in ESP classes inIran. Ten ESP teachers from ten different majors in the department of Humanities at Islamic Azad University, RashtBranch were selected to be observed in this study. Direct Observations, field notes and audio- recordings were usedto investigate the process of teaching and assessing reading in the selected ESP classes and to determine the amountof time given to each category in three phases of pre-reading, silent-reading and post reading during the class time.The results of data analysis revealed that the total time spent on post- reading activities was higher than thatallocated for pre-reading activities. The most observed pre-reading activities were vocabulary-related andpronunciation-related activities while grammar-related activities were rarely used in the observed classes. Inaddition, the most observed post-reading activities in the ten ESP classes were “multiple questions”. With regard toassessment procedures in teaching reading in ESP classes, the results demonstrated that summative assessment wasused notably more than the formative assessment by the ESP instructors in their classes.

Authors

Fereidoon Vahdany

Assistant professor Department of Applied Linguistics, Payam-e-Nour University, Rasht, Iran

Somaye Shirani

PhD candidate Department of Foreign Language and Literature, Azad University of Karaj, Iran