The Effect of Teacher's Reading Aloud on Iranian EFL Learners' Reading

The present book was developed in order to investigate the effect of teacher's reading aloud instruction on Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension. It was also pursued to find whether or not male and female EFL learners have different reading abilities as a result of receiving reading aloud instruction. The participants of the study were 70 male (n = 35) and female (n = 35) pre-intermediate EFL learners who were selected based on their performance on English language placement test called Oxford Placement Test (OPT). They were assigned to two equal groups of control and experimental. The experimental group received the read aloud instruction while the control group received silent reading instruction, both in six sessions. The total score of the first test at the end of the third session was regarded as pretest and the total score of second test at the end of the sixth session, as posttest. The results of independent sample t-test showed that there is a significant difference between the control and experimental groups on their performance on posttest. Therefore, reading aloud instruction was effective in enhancing Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension ability.