The Effect of Contrastive Analysis on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners of L2 Adjective Knowledge

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Mahboobeh Joze Tajareh ¹ , Mohammadreza Khodareza ²

1 - Department of English language, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IRAN.
2 - Department of English language, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IRAN.

Received: 2014-12-15 Accepted : 2015-01-28 Published : 2015-02-01

Keywords: EFL learners, Contrastive Analysis, L2 adjectives knowledge,

Abstract :

Contrastive analysis of hypothesis is the comparison of the linguistic system of two or more languages and it is based on the main difficulties in learning a new language that caused by interference from the first language. The present study intended to investigate the effect of contrastive analysis on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ knowledge of L2 adjectives. The question of this study lied in the fact that whether contrastive analysis has any effects on intermediate EFL learners’ knowledge of L2 adjectives, In order to find the answer of this question, this article investigated some issues about contrastive analysis between two languages and their effect on L2 adjective knowledge. For this reason 60 intermediate EFL learners were selected by OPT test and were divided in two groups, one of them was control group and the other was the experimental group. After that the pretest of L2 adjectives knowledge was administered in both groups in order to understand about L2 adjectives knowledge. Then treatments were administered in both groups. Treatment in control group was the traditional way of teaching adjectives and in experimental group was teaching adjectives by using contrastive analysis between two languages. These treatments were administered for two weeks. After that administering posttest in both groups and at the end the data was analyzed by two way independent sample t-test and one-way ANCOVA. And the result of study showed that the null hypothesis of the study was rejected so the contrastive analysis had positive effect on L2 adjective knowledge.

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