The Role of Textual Enhancement Devices on the Acquisition of English Conditional Sentences

سال انتشار: 1395
محل انتشار: چهارمین کنفرانس بین المللی پژوهشهای کاربردی در مطالعات زبان
کد COI اختصاصی: ELSCONF04_309
زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
تعداد مشاهده: 345

نویسندگان

Alborz University, Ziba Shahr, Qazvin

چکیده

The aim of the study was to investigate whether different textual enhancement devices had significant impact on the acquisition of English conditional sentences for Iranian EFL students. Participants were 75 students who were randomly assigned to four experimental groups, each being required to read one of the four possible versions of the same text on conditional sentences with different textual enhancement types (i.e., italicizing, boldfacing, underlining and highlighting) and one control group.The results of the Kruskal-Wallis Test, performed on the posttests indicated that there was a statistically significant difference among the participants with the Bold and Highlighted groups recording the highest median score.The results of the follow-up Mann-Whitney U tests also revealed that there were significant differences between Control and Bold; Control and Underlined; Control and Highlighted; and Bold and Italicized groups. The observed effect size values indicated medium effect size for Control/Bold (r = .41), and Control/Highlighted groups (r = .36) and small effect size for Control/Underlined ( r = .28) and Bold/Italicized (r = .28) groups.

کلیدواژه ها

textual enhancement devices, acquisition of English conditional structures

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