Impact of Density and Distribution of Unfamiliar Lexical Items on Iranian EFL Learners’ Successful Reading Comprehension Achievement

  • سال انتشار: 1398
  • محل انتشار: فصلنامه آموزش و پژوهش زبان، دوره: 7، شماره: 25
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_JFL-7-25_004
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 299
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نویسندگان

Heibatollah Kazemi

English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran (Corresponding author)

چکیده

Density and distribution of Unfamiliar Lexical Items (ULIs) appear to influence learners’ Reading Comprehension Achievement (RCA). This study concerns the impact of these two variables on Iranian EFL learners’ RCA. For this, two groups of students timetabled for the experiments designed to assess learners’ RCA. To determine the participants’ levels of proficiency a Quick Proficiency Test was first given to the total population of ۸۷ students and ۶۰ selected as participants. They were then divided into four subgroups of ۱۵, each of which took the pertaining text as the treatment. To do so, three short passages were administered, two for the density and one for distribution. Then, data were gathered from the questionnaires and answers analyzed by SPSS. The results revealed the participants in low density/distribution subgroups outperforming their counterparts in high density/distribution subgroups on tests devised to measure the learners’ inferencing of ULIs boldfaced in the texts. The selected method was a quasi-experimental, post-test only design and the procedures comprised short passages, multiple-choice tests, and statistics. To conclude, ULIs found detrimental to the learners’ successful RCA in the foregoing experimentation, where it can serve as a resource to the EFL development programs.

کلیدواژه ها

Density, Distribution, Inferencing, Reading Comprehension Achievement

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