The Effect of User-Friendly Texts vs. Impersonal and Hybrid Texts on the Reading Comprehension Ability of Iranian EFL Learners

Subject Areas : آموزش زبان انگلیسی

اسماعیل فقیه ¹ , نعبمه خرقانی ²

1 - Alzahra University, Tehran
2 - Islamic Azad University - Mashhad and Qouchan Branch

Received: 2016-08-19 Accepted : 2016-08-19 Published : 2008-05-21

Keywords: User-Friendly Texts, Impersonal Texts, Hybrid Texts,

Abstract :

This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of AlzahraUniversity were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, which were all followed by a reading comprehension test. Also, a questionnaire containing two questions was given to the participants in order to tap their own personal feelings. Series of one-way ANOVA displayed that the mean differences among the three groups were significant at 0.05 level and the user-friendly group outperformed the other ones.

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