The Comparative Effect of Kinesthetic Reinforcement and Drama onPronunciation

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of kinesthetic reinforcement and drama onpronunciation of Iranian EFL learners. Administrators and educators are constantly looking forways to increase student pronunciation achievement, especially since the development of EFLlearning. A comparative literature review was conducted as the basis of this study. It showed thatregardless of the content area, pronunciation is a tool that can be used in a variety of ways to avoidstudents from understanding and learning of subject matter. Experiments conducted indicated thatboth kinesthetic reinforcement and drama culminated in increases in pronunciation of the wordsthey uttered. It was found that the students who were subjected to the kinesthetic reinforcementand drama class scored higher on pronunciation standardized test (OPT) than those students whowere taught in the traditional way

کلیدواژه ها:

kinesthetic reinforcement ، drama ، pronunciation