چکیده مقاله
The purpose of the present study was to find out the impact of creative teaching in developing EFL learners' reading comprehension and reflective thinking: in intermediate female setting To fulfill the purpose of this study, 60 EFL learners of Ayandeh language institute located in Tehran was selected non randomly from among a total number of 100 learners based on their performance on the Preliminary English Test PET After selection, they filled out the reflective thinking Kember et al, 2000 and reading pretest questions and then they were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control, each one consisting of 30 EFL learners Both groups were female and their age range of them was between 15 19 years old Reading skill for the experimental group instructed based on creative teaching techniques; but in the control group, reading skill instructed based on traditional techniques At the end of the study, after 15 sessions treatment, reading posttest and reflective thinking questionnaire was given to two groups to evaluate whether there was any significant difference between these two groups or not The design of the current study was quasi experimental, pretest/ posttest design The obtained scores were analyzed descriptively and inferentially For descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviation were obtained and the type of the test that applied for this study was independent sample t test The statistical analyses revealed that there was significant statistical difference between the two groups’ mean scores on the reading posttest While, there was no significant statistical difference between the two groups’ mean scores on the reflective thinking posttest As a result, it can be argued that creative teaching had significant impact on EFL learners’ reading comprehension, but had no significant impact on EFL learners’ reflective thinking level The finding of this study had implications for EFL learners, teacher educators, and material developers
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نویسندگان
Fatemeh Shadhosseini
Master's degree, Department of English Language Education, Valiasr Faculty, South Tehran Azad University, Tehran, Iran
شیوه ارجاع
Shadhosseini, Fatemeh,1402,The Impact of Creative Teaching in Developing EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension and Reflective Thinking: In Intermediate Female Setting,18th International Conference on Language , Literature , Culture and History Studies
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