چکیده

English books taught in Iranian schools have never considered EFL students’ paragraph structure awareness. However; paragraph structure instruction has been provided for Iranian 12th grade students in Vision 3. This study investigated the effect of this type of instruction to shed more light on the role that paragraph structure instruction plays on reading comprehension of Iranian EFL 12th grade students. To this end, 63 high school students participated in the study. They were randomly assigned into two groups, functioning as the experimental and control groups. The homogeneity of the two groups at the outset of the experiment was testified by FCE reading comprehension test. All the participants were pre-tested on reading comprehension. Then, the instruction was held over a course of 12 sessions base on Vision 3 method of instruction and analysis of paragraphs for experimental group while the control group received no such treatment. Finally, the post-test on reading comprehension was administered on the two groups to show participants’ reading comprehension ability after the instruction. Tests were developed based on four short reading passages of expository text type similar to reading comprehension texts of Vision 3. An independent-samples t-test was run to analyze the data. The results showed that the experimental group could significantly outperform the control group in reading comprehension performance after the treatment. Consequently, regarding reading comprehension ability, paragraph structure instruction of Vision 3 was considered to be affective for 12th grade students.

کليدواژه ها

Paragraph Structure, Explicit Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Vision 3, Expository Texts

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Mahdi Ghaseminezhad , 1398 , The Effect of Paragraph Structure Instruction on Iranian 12th Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension of Vision 3 , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي