The Study of Impact of Learners' Personal Constructs on Reading Comprehension through Induction-Deduction Strategies
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Aras International Campus
, Abaspoor
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Master of Arts
, English Language Teaching
This study is an attempt to investigate the role of personal constructs through Induction-Deduction strategies on Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension. People cannot understand the world except through their own constructs. Therefore, in order to understand a person's response to events, we have to understand the constructs through which he or she has perceived those events. Also the intended meaning is communicatively successful only if the speaker's special intention is recognized by the hearer. These intentions are essentially communicative because the fulfillment of intentions consists in hearer's understanding. Not only are such intentions reflexive, their fulfillment consists in their recognition. The purpose of this study was to inspect the Iranian English learners to see how individuals vary in the perception of reading texts from their personal constructs point of view. It also serves to explain why individuals have different kinds of perception. Therefore, a quantitative approach was used to carry out this study. The assessment program involved Oxford Placement Test (OPT), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), Comprehension Reading Test (CRT) and Repertory Grid Technique (RGT) which were administered to 60 upper-intermediate EFL learners. The assessment components were developed by the teacher and students collaboratively during two weeks. Interaction between learners' personal constructs and Induction-Deduction strategies lead to new viewpoints in psycholinguistic analysis and shed light on teaching process and can be used by teachers, curriculum planners and even students.
Reading Comprehension
Induction-Deduction Strategies
Personal Constructs Theory
AlizadehMonir Alizadeh, Monir
Zohrabi, Mohammad, Supervisor
Farahman, Farrokhi, Advisor
ایران
The Study of Impact of Learners' Personal Constructs on Reading Comprehension through Induction-Deduction Strategies