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Does Cultural Knowledge Matter? Investigating the Effect of Cultural Knowledge on Reading Comprehension of Iranian EFL Learners
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jalal, Seyed Ramin Rokni, Abdolmanafi Hajilari, Ali Payam, Golestan |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | As teaching culture is an important parameter in learning a foreign language, the present study aimed to explore the effect of cultural knowledge on reading comprehension of EFL learners. For this purpose, 60 EFL learners from three classes were randomly divided into three groups, a control group and two experimental groups. They were male and female pre- intermediate learners studying in an institute in Aliabad, northern Iran. The control group did not receive any special treatment, whereas one experimental group received texts of British culture (BC) and another experimental group received texts of Persian culture as well as British one (P- BC) for eight sessions. The data were analyzed via ANOVA. The findings indicated that the learners in the P-BC group outperformed the ones in the other two groups in the posttest. Further, the findings displayed that learners from the BC group did better than the ones in the control group. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.languageinindia.com/sep2013/culturalefl1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
