فهرس المقالات Shadow-Reading

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  1 - The Effectiveness of Shadow-Reading With and Without Written Script on Listening Comprehension of Iranian Intermediate EFL Students.
  Meisam Shafiei Ramin Rahmany Ataollah Maleki
  Listening comprehension is at the heart of language learning (Kurita, 2012). It is an importantlanguage skill to develop in terms of second language acquisition (SLA) (Dunkel, 1991; Rost,2001; Vandergrift, 2007).In spite of its importance, L2 learners often regard liste أکثر

  Listening comprehension is at the heart of language learning (Kurita, 2012). It is an importantlanguage skill to develop in terms of second language acquisition (SLA) (Dunkel, 1991; Rost,2001; Vandergrift, 2007).In spite of its importance, L2 learners often regard listening as themost difficult language skill to learn. In this study, shadowing as an act or task in listening, inwhich the learner tracks the target speech and repeats it immediately as exactly as possible, isrecommended to enhance the students’ listening comprehension skills. More specifically, thisstudy aimed at investigating the effect of shadowing with and without written script on theIranian EFL students’ listening comprehension. Seventy seven participants out of apopulation of ninety nine students were randomly picked through the administration ofPreliminary English Test (PET). The participants were three groups of intermediate level.The First group, did shadow-reading as the first experimental group with written script (groupA); the second group, who did shadow-reading as the second experimental group withoutwritten script (group B); and the third, who acted as the control group (group C or nonshadowing).The data were collected through the administration of a pre- test and a post-test.The analysis of the test scores, using a one-way ANOVA, revealed that the experimentalgroups (A & B) performed statistically better in the test. It also revealed that the shadowingwith written script group performed statistically better than the without written script group. تفاصيل المقالة
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  2 - The Effectiveness of Shadow-Reading With and Without Written Script on Pronunciation of Iranian Intermediate EFL Students
  Meisam Shafiei Ramin Rahmany
  Pronunciation is essential to appropriate communication because the incorrect use ofpronunciation inevitably leads to the message being misunderstood by the receptor. In spite of itsimportance, L2 learners often regard pronunciation as the most difficult language skill أکثر

  Pronunciation is essential to appropriate communication because the incorrect use ofpronunciation inevitably leads to the message being misunderstood by the receptor. In spite of itsimportance, L2 learners often regard pronunciation as the most difficult language skill to learn.In this study, shadowing as an act or task in pronunciation, in which the learner tracks the targetspeech and repeats it immediately as exactly as possible, is recommended to enhance thestudents’ pronunciation. More specifically, this study aimed at investigating the effect ofshadowing with and without written script on the Iranian EFL students’ pronunciation. 77participants out of a population of 99 students were randomly picked through the administrationof Preliminary English Test (PET). The participants were three groups of intermediate level. TheFirst group, containing 27 students, did shadow-reading with written script (group A); the secondgroup comprising 25 students, who did shadow-reading without written script (group B); and thethird, consisting of 25 learners, who acted as the control group. Each shadowing lesson wasconducted with the detailed instructions as recommended by Kadota and Tamai (2004). The datawere collected through the administration of a pre- test and a post-test. The analysis of the testscores, using a one-way ANOVA, revealed that the experimental groups (A & B) performedstatistically better in pronunciation. It also revealed that the shadowing with written script groupperformed statistically better than the without written script group. The implications of this studyare that shadowing, as a fruitful technique, can be incorporated into the teaching of thepronunciation to the EFL students. تفاصيل المقالة