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- Title
A Comparative Study on the Effect of Preinstruction and While-instruction Alphabet Teaching in EFL Context.
- Authors
Maleki, Ghaffar; Nourdad, Nava
- Abstract
The present study was designed to specifically compare two methods of presenting the alphabet in Iranian guidance schools (an equivalent for middle school in other countries), namely pre-instruction and while-instruction to see if any of them is more successful in learners' alphabet learning.To this end, a quasiexperimental research design with two experimental groups including a pre-test and a post-test was set.The existing four intact classes were randomly assigned as two groups of pre-instruction(N=47)and whileinstruction (N=43) experimental groups.Both groups followed alphabet learning process for six months. One of the researcherswas the teacher of the two groups and taught the alphabet through pre-instruction presentation to the first experimental group, andthrough while-instruction to the second experimental group. By accomplishing the treatment, the post-test was given to both groups. The results of independet-samples t-test indicated that while-instruction method for teaching alphaebt was much more beneficial than pre-instruciton. Language teachers can benefit from this finding in their elementary classes.
- Subjects
EDUCATIONAL psychology; ENGLISH as a foreign language; ENGLISH language education; ENGLISH language education for foreign speakers in elementary schools; LANGUAGE of instruction; NON-English speaking people
- Publication
Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 2016, Vol 6, Issue 3, p571
- ISSN
1799-2591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/tpls.0603.15