Studies in Applied Linguistics, Volume (2), No (1), Year (2011-9) , Pages (3-21)

Title : ( Schema-Based Instruction: A Novel Approach to Teaching English to Iranian University Students )

Authors: Ebrahim Khodadady , Seyyed Mohammad Alavi , Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad ,

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Abstract

This study is one of the first attempts to scrutinize the effect of schema-based general English teaching and testing on English language learning in an Iranian academic context. For this to achieve, 90 undergraduate theology students studying general English at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) were assigned to an experimental and a control group. For the same course book two instructional approaches were implemented during the academic semester; schema-based instruction (SBI) for experimental and translation-based instruction (TBI) for control groups. At the semester‘s commencement a schema-based cloze multiple choice item test (MCIT) was developed on the textbook and administered as a pre-test. The same test was administered again at the semester‘s termination along with a schema-based vocabulary test (SVT) and a general grammar test (GGT) to find out which approach was more effective. Final results showed that the performance of the experimental group was superior to the control group on all of the administered tests, i.e. MCIT, SVT and GGT

Keywords

, Schema-based instruction, Translation-based instruction, Schema-based cloze multiple choice items tests, Schema-based vocabulary test, General grammar test
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author = {Khodadady, Ebrahim and Seyyed Mohammad Alavi and Khaghaninejad, Mohammad Saber},
title = {Schema-Based Instruction: A Novel Approach to Teaching English to Iranian University Students},
journal = {Studies in Applied Linguistics},
year = {2011},
volume = {2},
number = {1},
month = {September},
issn = {2008-7675},
pages = {3--21},
numpages = {18},
keywords = {Schema-based instruction; Translation-based instruction; Schema-based cloze multiple choice items tests; Schema-based vocabulary test; General grammar test},
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%T Schema-Based Instruction: A Novel Approach to Teaching English to Iranian University Students
%A Khodadady, Ebrahim
%A Seyyed Mohammad Alavi
%A Khaghaninejad, Mohammad Saber
%J Studies in Applied Linguistics
%@ 2008-7675
%D 2011

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