چکیده:
Abstract The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of IT system-based instruction vs. traditional instruction of teaching English on Iranian low-intermediate EFL learners’ reading comprehension ability in a smart school in Tonekabon, Mazandaran, Iran. To collect the data, 60 low-intermediate high school learners took part in the study. As to the homogeneity of the participants, they took Solution Placement Test (SPT). The participants were divided into one experimental group (i.e. receiving the treatment in terms of using smart tools) and one control group (i.e. receiving no treatment and being traditionally taught through white board). A reading comprehension test (pre-test) was given to examine the participants’ initial knowledge of reading comprehension. Similar to the pre-test, a reading comprehension test (post-test) was utilized to check the participants’ performance of reading comprehension and look into their probable progress as a result of receiving the treatment. Findings revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group after the treatment highlighting the success of instruction in enhancing the students’ reading comprehension ability. The results suggest the application of smart tools to promote interaction among the learners and assist them to freely express their thoughts in the e-learning environment.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Traditional Instruction of Teaching Reading Comprehension: A case of low-intermediate EFL learners Parastoo Soroudi*, High School English Teacher, Public School, Tonekabon, Iran parastoo.
Quality research must be done to identify which students, from a particular level of proficiency, can profit from the use of computers and its related tools such as smart boards in the process of learning language skills particularly reading comprehension ability, which is the concern of the current study.
Therefore, the present study aims to answer the question that whether IT system-based instruction, which is in favor of using smart tools plus computer programs, can pave the way for low-intermediate high school learners to improve their reading comprehension abilities in comparison with traditional methods of teaching reading.
Therefore, the present study aims to examine whether IT system-based instruction, which is in favor of using smart tools plus computer programs, can pave the way for low- intermediate high school learners to improve their reading comprehension abilities in comparison with traditional methods of teaching reading.
After five weeks of instruction in an IT system-based environment as well as the traditional reading comprehension instruction, the participants in the experimental and control groups took the post-test to check the their performance of reading comprehension and investigate their probable progress as a result of receiving the treatment on IT instruction through technological software.
e. using smart tools and technological software in the classroom) on the learners’ reading comprehension ability by measuring the post-test scores of the learners in the experimental and control groups.