The Impact of Genre-based Instruction of Narrative Texts on Iranian EFL Learners’ Motivation for Writing

This quasi-experimental study investigated the instructional efficacy of genre-based approach on Iranian EFL learners’motivation for writing. Out of 180 participants, 60 EFL male and female students at university level, with the age range of 19-28, based on a standard profeciency test, Preliminary English Test (PET), were selected and randomly assigned into control and experimental groups. Each group contained 30 students for which a pre-test and post-test (as motivation for writing questionnaire) were administered. The teaching  materials of narrative texts were prepared in a way to conform to the genere-based approach. The results of the study, based on statistical analysis of one way of ANOVA, indicated that the genre-based methodology had significant effects on Iranian EFL learners’motivation for writing. The finding is very useful for Applied Linguists and syllabus designers as well as language teachers and learners.

کلیدواژه ها:

Genre-Based Instruction ، Narrative Texts ، Motivation for Writing ، and EFL