چکیده:
Learning a foreign language is a challenging process in which learners need motivation and encouragement through the use of modern techniques. The present paper investigates the effects digital stories may have on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension. To this end, the researchers carried out a quasi-experimental research in a language institution in Tabriz (Iran). In total, forty, 11-14-year-old female students participated in this research. Twenty students were in the experimental group and twenty in the control group. The Preliminary English Test (PET) was administered at the beginning of the study to check whether all participants were homogeneous in terms of English language proficiency. A pre-test of listening comprehension was designed to gather initial data on the learners' listening skill prior to the treatment. The experimental group was presented with digital stories in a technology-equipped classroom. After the treatment, a post-test was administered to both groups to test the learners' progression in listening comprehension. Then, using an ANCOVA test, the performance of two groups was compared. The findings indicated that the experimental group outperformed the control group in the final test. The results raise interesting issues related to the use of technology in the context of foreign language learning, substantiating the link between technology rich environment and improved language learning.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Effect of Digital Stories on Enhancing Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid,* Leila Hassanzadeh Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran *Corresponding author: nhadidi@iaut.
In a study conducted by Gunduz (2006), the effect of using multimedia and audiobooks on the motivation of a group of beginning language learners was examined through an experimental pre-post test design.
Inspired by the above mentioned theoretical views and noticing the lack of such a study in Iranian EFL learning context, the researchers set out to investigate the effect of digital stories on enhancing Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners' listening comprehension.
Thus, the following research question was posed: Does the use of digital stories have any effect on enhancing Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners' listening comprehension?
Results This study was an attempt to scrutinize the effect of digital stories on the development of listening comprehension of Iranian pre-intermediate learners.
3. The Post-test (Listening) A post-test, which comprised the listening part of a standardized PET test with 25 items and a ceiling score of 25, was also administered by the researcher to examine the effect of the treatment on the learners' progress in learning the linguistic structure, vocabulary, sound patterns and prosody of the foreign language.
To analyze the results obtained from the post-test and to check whether digital stories had any positive effect on learners' listening comprehension, the researcher used one-way ANCOVA analysis as shown in Tables 7 and 8."