چکیده مقاله
This study aimed to determine whether using cultural information as a pre listening activity significantlyaffects EFL learners' listening comprehension Consequently, 180 students majoring in English atAllame Tabatabae and Azad University were randomly selected based on their scores on the Michiganproficiency test 1995 Then, the subjects were divided into three groups: elementary, intermediate,and advanced Subsequently, each was divided into equal subgroups, ultimately assigned randomly tothe control and experimental groups From the very beginning, both the control group and theexperimental group took a test of listening comprehension suited to each of the three aforementioneddifferent levels, except for the fact that to each passage in the second set, the Cultural information wasadded, functioning as the treatment of the experiment The data were analyzed through the t test, whichcompared the means of the control and experimental groups of various levels of language proficiencies The results show that the use of cultural information did not affect the listening comprehension ofelementary students, contrary to the intermediate and advanced students By considering the anchoringrole of cultural understanding in comprehension, the results can have implications for syllabusdesigners, material writers, test developers, and language teachers
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نویسندگان
Hamidreza Mahboudi
Zand Institute of Higher Education
Mohammad Ebrahim Moghaddasi
Zand Institute of Higher Education
Zahra Kazemi
Zand Institute of Higher Education
شیوه ارجاع
Mahboudi, Hamidreza and Ebrahim Moghaddasi, Mohammad and Kazemi, Zahra,1403,Enhancing Listening Comprehension among Iranian EFL Learners through SchemaTheory,20th International Conference on Language , Literature , Culture and History Studies
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