The Effect of Learners’ Autonomous Textbook Selection on Intermediate Iranian EFL Learners’ Speaking Ability
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Parisa Farrokh
Parisa FARROKH is an assistant professor of linguistics at the English Translation Department, Lahijan Islamic Azad University in Iran. Her research efforts have focused on corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, curriculum design and material evaluation.
Abstract
The ability to employ the language as a communicational tool often serves as a measure of one’s speaking success in the language learning class. This research sought to investigate the effect of learners’ autonomous textbook selection on the speaking ability of Iranian English as foreign language (EFL) learners. Moreover, finding and analyzing factors considered by the learners in selecting the textbooks were another aim of this research. Sixty Iranian intermediate EFL learners from the Simin Language Institute in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran, were selected as the participants of the study based on their scores on Oxford Placement Test. This test determines the level of the students’ English proficiency. These participants were randomly assigned into the control and experimental groups. An interview procedure was run as their pretest. The experimental group studied from their selected books, besides the researcher’s teaching in the class. After 16 sessions, a posttest, the same as the pretest, was run as well. The quantitative results indicated the superior performance of the experimental group over the control group. Furthermore, an analysis of the Litz’s (2000) questionnaire shows that learners considered criteria such as practical considerations, layout and design, activities, skills, language type, subject and content of the selected books.
About the author
Parisa FARROKH is an assistant professor of linguistics at the English Translation Department, Lahijan Islamic Azad University in Iran. Her research efforts have focused on corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, curriculum design and material evaluation.
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- Frontmatter
- Second Language Acquisition
- Predictors of Foreign Language Anxiety: A Study of College-Level L2 Learners of Chinese
- Testing and Assessment
- Assessment Literacy of Secondary EFL Teachers: Evidence from a Regional EFL Test
- Discourse Analysis
- Generic Variation & Private Intention: A Multi-Dimensional Exploration of Book Reviews and Prefaces
- Language and Cognition
- Neural Mechanism and Representation of English and Chinese Metaphors of Bilinguals with Different Second Language Proficiency: An ERP Study
- Teacher Development
- Situational Factors of Job Burnout in Polytechnic EGP Teachers: A Diary-Based Case Study in the Chinese Context
- Curriculum Design and Material Evaluation
- The Effect of Learners’ Autonomous Textbook Selection on Intermediate Iranian EFL Learners’ Speaking Ability
- Chinese Abstracts
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Second Language Acquisition
- Predictors of Foreign Language Anxiety: A Study of College-Level L2 Learners of Chinese
- Testing and Assessment
- Assessment Literacy of Secondary EFL Teachers: Evidence from a Regional EFL Test
- Discourse Analysis
- Generic Variation & Private Intention: A Multi-Dimensional Exploration of Book Reviews and Prefaces
- Language and Cognition
- Neural Mechanism and Representation of English and Chinese Metaphors of Bilinguals with Different Second Language Proficiency: An ERP Study
- Teacher Development
- Situational Factors of Job Burnout in Polytechnic EGP Teachers: A Diary-Based Case Study in the Chinese Context
- Curriculum Design and Material Evaluation
- The Effect of Learners’ Autonomous Textbook Selection on Intermediate Iranian EFL Learners’ Speaking Ability
- Chinese Abstracts
