On the Effect of Dynamic Assessment on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ L۲ Grammar Learning and Retention: A Gender-Based Study

سال انتشار: 1403
محل انتشار: فصلنامه بین المللی تحقیقات در آموزش زبان، دوره: 9، شماره: 3
کد COI اختصاصی: JR_IJREE-9-3_002
زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
تعداد مشاهده: 120

نویسندگان

Department of English Language, College of Humanities, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

چکیده

Dissatisfaction with product-oriented and static forms of assessment led to the emergence of process-oriented testing or dynamic assessment. Learners’ involvement in the assessment process can enhance their learning autonomy and help them process linguistic features more deeply. Accordingly, using a quantitative quasi-experimental research design, the researchers sought to explore whether utilizing DA principles would have any differential impact, believed to be statistically significant, on the Iranian male and female intermediate EFL learners’ learning and retention of English grammar. To this end, ۳۰ EFL learners from two intact classes who were taking a general English course at Shayestegan English Language Institute, in Rasht, Iran were selected as a homoscedastic group of participants based on the scores they obtained on a sample copy of Oxford Solutions Placement Test (OSPT). The intact classes, each comprising ۱۵ students, were then assigned to one experimental and one control group who then received treatment on their L۲ grammar under different conditions: The experimental group received instruction on English grammar as per the principles of dynamic assessment in an eight-session intervention program. The control group likewise received treatment on L۲ grammar over the course of the study, but they were trained using teacher-fronted instruction. Finally, the groups sat for an immediate and a delayed posttest of grammar to demonstrate their degree of learning and amount of retention of English grammar. Capitalizing on a ۲ by ۲ factorial design, which allowed for examination of both main and interaction effects of instructional modality and participants’ gender, the researchers employed a two-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to examine the participants’ performance scores. The results revealed that, regardless of participants’ gender, instruction as delivered through dynamic assessment privileged the participants in the experimental group much better than that of the conventional method in terms of their learning and retention of English grammar. A further finding was that gender did not interact with instruction modality in such a way as to produce a differential effect on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ learning and retention of English language grammar. The study carries both micro implications in the form of in-class teaching and macro implications in the form of curriculum planning and development, instructional design, and policymaking for different groups of stakeholders.

کلیدواژه ها

Dynamic assessment, EFL learners, gender, L۲ grammar, Dynamic assessment, EFL learners, gender, L۲ grammar

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