The Impact of Creative Teaching in Developing EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension and Reflective Thinking: In Intermediate Female Setting

The purpose of the present study was to find out the impact of creative teaching in developing EFL learners' reading comprehension and reflective thinking: in intermediate female setting. To fulfill the purpose of this study, ۶۰ EFL learners of Ayandeh language institute located in Tehran was selected non-randomly from among a total number of ۱۰۰ learners based on their performance on the Preliminary English Test (PET). After selection, they filled out the reflective thinking (Kember et al, ۲۰۰۰) and reading pretest questions and then they were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control, each one consisting of ۳۰ EFL learners. Both groups were female and their age range of them was between ۱۵-۱۹ years old. Reading skill for the experimental group instructed based on creative teaching techniques; but in the control group, reading skill instructed based on traditional techniques. At the end of the study, after ۱۵ sessions treatment, reading posttest and reflective thinking questionnaire was given to two groups to evaluate whether there was any significant difference between these two groups or not. The design of the current study was quasi-experimental, pretest/ posttest design. The obtained scores were analyzed descriptively and inferentially. For descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviation were obtained and the type of the test that applied for this study was independent sample t-test. The statistical analyses revealed that there was significant statistical difference between the two groups’ mean scores on the reading posttest. While, there was no significant statistical difference between the two groups’ mean scores on the reflective thinking posttest. As a result, it can be argued that creative teaching had significant impact on EFL learners’ reading comprehension, but had no significant impact on EFL learners’ reflective thinking level. The finding of this study had implications for EFL learners, teacher educators, and material developers.

کلیدواژه ها:

“Creative Teaching ، Reading Comprehension ، Reflective Thinking”.