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标题：The Effect of Structured Academic Controversy on English Proficiency Level within Communicative Language Teaching Context
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作者：Reza Tavakoli ; Seyed Hesamuddin Aliasin ; Fariba Mobini 等
期刊名称：Journal of Language Teaching and Research
印刷版ISSN：1798-4769
出版年度：2017
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：349
DOI：10.17507/jltr.0802.18
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：This study aimed at investigating the effect of Structured Academic Controversy (SAC) on English proficiency level of Iranian intermediate EFL learners within the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) context. To this end, the Cambridge English Placement Test (CEPT) as the pre-test was administered to 90 EFL learners at Khayyam University of Mashhad, Iran. Based on the results and according to the test guidelines, only the intermediate EFL learners were selected as the final participants (N=60). Then, they were randomly divided into two groups of control and experimental, each group consisting of 30 subjects. Then, a t-test analysis was conducted to ensure that the two groups were not different in their English proficiency level before treatment. The experimental group was taught English based on a CLT syllabus supplemented by SAC techniques, whereas the control group received the same instruction but without being aided with the SAC techniques. After treatment, the participants received the same CEPT as the post-test. The t-test results for this test revealed a significant effect of SAC on the experimental group's performance on the post test, which means that SAC can play a role in EFL learners' English language proficiency improvement.
关键词：communicative language teaching (CLT); English proficiency level; structured academic controversy (SAC); EFL learners