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标题：An Examination of two Approaches to Teaching Reading Comprehension Texts to Middle School Students in Iran
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作者：Aliakbar Tajik
期刊名称：IJ-ELTS
印刷版ISSN：2308-5460
出版年度：2020
卷号：8
期号：3
页码：69-78
语种：English
出版社：Iqra Academic Publications Pvt Ltd.
摘要：There are few research studies on the effects of teaching comprehension strategies to teaching reading comprehension to young adults in elementary school (middle school students). By using an experimental design, we evaluated two approaches to teaching reading comprehension texts to young adults in four seventh and eighth grade classrooms: STS and TTS. In plain terms the study was to examine whether it is better and more efficient to teach reading comprehension texts based on the students' topic selection (TTS) or the teacher's topic selection (STS). To achieve this aim, the researcher adopted the experimental approach and employed a sample consisting of 96 male students aged between 16 and 17 studying in the third grade of high school. Based on the scores on their final English exam (i.e., the pre- test), the participants were found to be initially homogeneous, and were then randomly classified into two groups. One group consisting of (45) students as an experimental group where the teacher dictated the topics and the other consisting of (51) students as a control group where the students chose topics of their own interest. An independent t-test run to compare the performance of the two groups revealed that there was a significant difference between the two groups such that the TTS group significantly outperformed the STS group.