• Fatemeh Hemmati

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• Mohtaram Kashi

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This study was an attempt to find out whether instruction of two strategies of oral retelling and summary writing has any effect on reading comprehension ability of Iranian EFL learners. The study was conducted on upper intermediate female students in an English language institute in Iran. To accomplish the purpose of the study, the researcher chose a sample of 120 subjects, which were reduced to 90 homogenous students. Then, the subjects were randomly assigned to two experimental and one control groups. Subjects in these groups were given a pretest at the beginning of the semester. In the following sessions, the students in the oral retelling group were trained in using this strategy along with seven texts, while the students in the other experimental group practiced summary writing strategy with the same texts. At the same time, the students in the control group were taught the same texts using a conventional method. The results of one way ANOVA indicated a significant difference between all these groups. On the other hand, the resultant values of post hoc multiple comparison of means proved that oral retelling strategy has been more effective compared with summary writing and conventional method of teaching the reading comprehension.

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