The Effects of Guided Discovery Learning on the Development of Iranian Teenage and Adult EFL Learners’ Syntactic Structures

  • سال انتشار: 1401
  • محل انتشار: تحقیقات کاربردی در زبان انگلیسی، دوره: 11، شماره: 2
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_AREUIT-11-2_002
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 260
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نویسندگان

Mahdi Hasanvand

MA Candidate of ELT, Department of English Language, Faculty of Management and Humanities, Chabahar Maritime University, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran

Amir Mohammadian

Assistant Professor, Department of English Language, Faculty of Management and Humanities, Chabahar Maritime University, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran

چکیده

Researchers have always been concerned with innovative approaches to facilitate the learning process for language learners. One of the facilitating strategies is guided discovery learning, which can help learners to develop their critical and analytical thinking skills. Hence, the present study is an attempt to discover the effects of guided discovery learning on the development of teenage and adult learners’ syntactic structures. The participants of this study were ۳۴ male EFL Iranian learners in Iranmehr Language Institute, Aleshtar, Lorestan province, Iran. The participants were divided into two experimental groups based on their age (۱۲ to ۱۸ as teenagers, and ۱۸ to ۳۰ as adults). First, the Longman proficiency test was given to the participants to measure their language ability. After that, a pre-test was given to the students regarding syntactic structures before the treatment. Then, every two weeks a post-test was given to the students to assess their gradual development. One immediate and two delayed post-tests were given to the students. In this study, paired and independent samples t-tests were used to compare the development of syntactic structures in the studied groups. The results of this study showed that both groups (teenagers and adults) made an improvement but adults improved more significantly than teenagers. The findings of the study contributed to the practical employment of guided discovery learning as an effective teaching methodology, especially for adults in the process of language learning

کلیدواژه ها

guided discovery learning, Syntactic structures, teenage, adult

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