درک مطلب و تصاویر کمدی

For many years reading comprehension has drawn the attention of second or foreign language practitioners and researchers, and it has been studied from different perspectives. Reading comprehension is the inseparable part of teaching and perhaps the most important and irreplaceable skill in learning a foreign language. The purpose of this project was to investigate the effects of comic strips on learner’s reading comprehension of Iranian preuniversity students. To conduct the research, ۶۰ female students studying in a preuniversity school in Isfahan city were selected. They were organized into a low intermediate-level proficiency group (low-level students) and a high intermediate-level proficiency group (high-level students) according to their proficiency level. The subjects in each group were divided into two groups. The low-level subjects were presented with a low level text and the text was presented with or without a comic strip. High-level students were presented with a high level text and the text was presented with or without a comic strip. A T-TEST measurement run on data from ۶۰ immediate recall protocols reveal that the low-level students receiving the low-level text with the comic strip scored significantly higher than their counterparts receiving the low-level text only. They also show that providing a comic strip with the high-level text did not enhance the high-level student’s recall.