The Effect of Explicit Teaching of Textual Metadiscourse on ESAP Reading Comprehension Performance of Iranian University Students
Publish place: The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances.، Vol: 2، Issue: 1
Publish Year: 1392
نوع سند: مقاله ژورنالی
زبان: English
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 21 فروردین 1397
Abstract:
The present study attempted the relative effect of explicit teaching of textual metadiscourse markers on ESAP reading comprehension performance of Iranian university students through an awareness raising experiment. A sixty-item multiple choice ESAP reading comprehension test of accounting was developed and validated to act as the pre-test and post-test. The test included items for assessing specific comprehension of students in their specialist subject. The test was administered to 80 undergraduate intermediate and upper-interrnediate students randomly assigned to experimental and control groups as the pre-test. After the treatment was over, the English for SpecificAcademic Purposes test was again given to the same students as the post-test. The results of the two-way AN OVA indicated that the experimental group benefited fiom the explicit teaching of textual metadiscourse markers and the treatment had a facilitative effect on ESAP reading comprehension of students. Moreover, the results of the two-way ANOVA showed that the proficiency level had an effect on ESAP reading comprehension of the students, that is upper-intermediate level students in the experimental group benefited more fiom the explicit teaching of textual metadiscourse markers. The overall results of the study provide empirical support for the facilitative effect of explicit teaching of textual metadiscourse markers on ESAP reading comprehension of students.
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mohammad reza negahi
Ph.D. Candidate in EFL, Department of Education, Islamic Azad University,Behbahan Branch, Behbahan-lran
naser nouri
Lecturer in EFL, Department of English and Linguistics, Islamic Azad University,Ahar Branch, Ahar-Iran