The Role of Self-Regulatory Approach in Iranian Learners' Lexical Segmentation: The case of authentic materials

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Azam Roostaie Zanyani ¹ , Farzaneh Mir ²

1 - Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran
2 - Department of Language Teaching, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran

Received: 2017-01-06 Accepted : 2017-07-17 Published : 2017-09-01

Keywords: self-regulation, authentic materials, lexical segmentation, listening,

Abstract :

The present research investigated the effect of self-regulatory approach (with two components of self-checking and self-efficacy) on pre-intermediate Iranian learners' lexical segmentation in listening comprehension via authentic listening comprehension texts. To achieve this purpose, the investigators administered an Oxford Placement Test (2007) to ninety-eight students of two girls’ private junior high schools in Abadan. The participants were in grade seven at pre-intermediate level. Ninety-two students were selected out of ninety-eight and after homogenizing the participants linguistically, they were divided into four groups. Twenty-three students of every 4 classes whose scores were nearly the same were considered as one group. There were one control group and three experimental groups. A teacher-made pretest which was piloted by the researchers was administered to all groups. Then, the experimental groups were instructed under an eight-sessions treatment which was self-regulated teaching via authentic and non-authentic texts. Finally, the participants took a posttest similar to the pretest on lexical segmentation in listening comprehension. Both pretest and posttest reliability were calculated with Cronbach Alpha. Statistical analyses were done through one-way ANOVA. the result of the study indicated that self-regulated approach teaching through authentic materials can improve learners’ lexical segmentation of listening comprehension.