Abstract:
Teachers’ verbal behavior is a key contributor to provision of appropriate indirect intervention in language learning contexts; however, it is surprising that professionals in ELT, to date, have not proposed a structured oral/verbal framework to deliver intervention and assistance in language learning contexts. To help redress this gap, Heron’s Six-Category Intervention Analysis was adapted to put forward a new method to regulate the verbal behavior and actual sentences used by the instructors to intervene in the language learning contexts. 175 Iranian EFL learners taking general English courses with teaching reading comprehension skills and strategies in focus participated in four experimental groups and one control group. Five 35-member groups included control, written mediation only, authoritative intervention, facilitative intervention, and synergetic authoritative-facilitative interventions. Preliminary English Test was employed to evaluate the performance of language learners on their reading comprehension. Results indicated that firstly application of Six-Category Intervention Analysis while providing dynamic assessment induced significant changes in the performance of the groups. Secondly, facilitative intervention, and synergetic authoritative-facilitative interventions groups, generally outperformed other groups with the former ranking first in three, and the latter in two of the six reading comprehension tests.
Machine summary:
"Intervention Analysis in Teaching Reading Comprehension through Dynamic Assessment: Heron’s Perspective Amir Rakhshan 1* , Massood Yazdani Moghaddam2 1 Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 2 Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Received: 3 April, 2015 Accepted: 21 September, 2015 Abstract Teachers’ verbal behavior is a key contributor to provision of appropriate indirect intervention in language learning contexts; however, it is surprising that professionals in ELT, to date, have not proposed a structured oral/verbal framework to deliver intervention and assistance in language learning contexts.
To help redress this gap, Heron’s Six-Category Intervention Analysis was adapted to put forward a new method to regulate the verbal behavior and actual sentences used by the instructors to intervene in the language learning contexts.
Keywords: Authoritative; Dynamic Assessment (DA); Facilitative; Intervention; Strategies; Synergetic INTRODUCTION Language learning and teaching contexts tend to be brimming with intervention and mediation.
The relative success of the two groups in which facilitative, and synergetic facilitative- authoritative interventions were used indicated that the language learners in our context preferred their teacher to play supportive, cathartic and cat- alytic role in their learning by providing interven- tions and verbal behaviors which were mostly supportive, cathartic, and catalytic.
Finally, via learning to use the SCIA, teachers can obtain a set of analytic and behavioral tools to shape their own method of practice and pave the way for their learners’ more successful performance on reading comprehension tasks and tests."