The Role of Translation in Promoting Reading Comprehension of Iranian High School Students (original) (raw)
The purpose of the present study was to see whether translation (contribution of the mother tongue) had any significant impact on promoting reading comprehension of Iranian high school students. 66 female high school students in grade three participated in this study. To select a sample of subjects, a teacher-made language proficiency test was administered. Then they were randomly assigned into two groups of experimental and control equally. Prior to the treatment a reading comprehension test was administered to EG and CG as pretest to reconfirm the homogeneity of the two groups of EG and CG and to make sure there was not any significant differences between the performance of the two groups before the treatment. The control group went through the placebo which was regular instruction through “Englishonly” sessions. The experimental group received the treatment which was instruction through translation from English to Persian. The treatment was performed in 5 separate sessions taking...
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