The Effect of Pictorial and Non-Pictorial Listening Tasks on Improving Iranian EFL Listeners' Comprehension
[Thesis]
Aras International Campus
, Abaspor
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Master of Arts (M.A.)
, English Language Teaching
The main goals of the present study were to investigate the possible advantages of using pictorial listening tasks to improve Iranian EFL listeners' listening comprehension over non-pictorial listening tasks, and to probe the relationship between the use of pictorial listening tasks and improvement of the Iranian EFL learners' listening comprehension at two levels of proficiency, namely, elementary and upper-intermediate. This study which was a quasi-experimental one, consisted of two groups at each level of proficiency, including one experimental and one control group. A pretest was administered in order to provide the researcher with necessary information about the learners' previous listening ability. Then, the experimental group had the chance to see some related pictures while listening to the same audio file that the subjects in the control group were exposed to. None of the control group members received any pictorial assistance, though. Finally, the results were statistically analyzed. The analyses revealed that pictorial assistance did help those who were in the experimental group over those who were in the control group. The findings of the current study could be useful to EFL teachers, test designers and coursebook writers.
Pictorial task
Listening comprehension
non-pictorial
picture
Safavi, Nilofar
Farrokhi, Farahman, Supervisor
Ansarin, Ali Akbar, Advisor
ایران
The Effect of Pictorial and Non-Pictorial Listening Tasks on Improving Iranian EFL Listeners' Comprehension