NDLI: The Effects of Concept Mapping and Critical Thinking Test Strategies on EFL Iranian Learners' Reading Comprehension

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The Effects of Concept Mapping and Critical Thinking Test Strategies on EFL Iranian Learners' Reading Comprehension

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Maleki, A. F. Ghara Chegini, Zeynab
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	This research was designed to investigate the effects of critical thinking and concept mapping test strategies on EFL Iranian learners' reading comprehension in five sessions during near two months. Fifty eight male and female students took a pre-test as a language proficiency test first, then they were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group, twenty students for critical thinking group, nineteen students for concept mapping group and nineteen students for control group were selected randomly. During four sessions of the treatment, each experimental group worked on four reading passages taken from different journals. The participants in two experimental groups were encouraged to think critically and notice meaningfully to the arrows showing how concepts are linked in reading passages. Thinking critically included evaluation, analysis, and synthesis and reasoning for critical thinking test strategy, and finding interrelated concept connections by mapping meaningful graphs for concept mapping test strategy. Along with the experimental groups, the participants in the control group also worked on the same four reading passages, but they were taught scanning, skimming, previewing, predicting, and guessing meaning from the context in order to improve their reading comprehension skills. At the end of four sections of treatment, three post tests were performed in one session. Finally One-way ANOVA was used to analyze the results of the control and the two experimental groups’ posttests, and a significant difference was observed in the two critical thinking group and control group, but there was not observed any significant difference between the concept mapping group and control group.
Starting Page	33
Ending Page	54
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Volume Number	6
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://tels.tiau.ac.ir/article_540904_1555b2ba59a8a88bb5d7b1ceb07fdace.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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