A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECT OF TEXTUAL, AUDIO AND TEXTUAL-PICTORIAL AND AUDIO–PICTORIAL ANNOTATIONS ON ENHANCING READING COMPREHENSION AMONG IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS

• Authors: Karbalaei Alireza , Zare Amaneh
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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This study aimed to investigate the interaction between L2 readers and the reading text equipped with four different annotations or glosses including text-only, audio-only, text-picture and audio-picture annotations. The participants in the study were selected from four intact classes consisting of 100 students studying English at intermediate level in Kish Institute of Science & technology (olom va fonon), in Iran. After they were given a reading comprehension text, the four experimental groups were given the same reading comprehension texts with different annotations. Then, they were asked to take the same reading test as posttest. The results of the study demonstrated that text-only and audio-only were more effective than other kinds of annotation. The results suggested that providing the new words whether in audio or text annotation during reading comprehension can help students to comprehend reading in an effective way. Educational implications suggest that provision of different kinds of glosses is beneficial for L2 students although they need some scaffolding for utilizing glosses in a beneficial way.

Keywords

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textual annotation; audio annotation; textual-pictorial annotation; audio-pictorial annotation; reading comprehension

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 40-67

Contributors

author

Karbalaei Alireza

• Farhagian University, Tehran, Iran

author

Zare Amaneh

• Kish International Branch, Kish, Iran

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