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The Correlation Between the Number of Hours Spent on Reading and Language Competence Gained? Bahrani, Taher
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): September 2011
Publisher : Richtmann Publishing

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In academia, there is a sort of hidden argument about the factors which shape effective reading and the amount of languagecompetence gained through reading. In this regard, few believe that the number of the hours spent daily on reading different sources willlead to effective reading and high language competence regardless of the fact that how this amount of time is spent. On the contrary, somebelieve that the number of hours has nothing to do with effective reading and this time measurement criterion has no validity in relation toeffective reading and the development of specialized language competence. Accordingly, the present paper tried to consider the essentialfactors which lead to effective reading and the development of specialized competence. Moreover, it aimed at providing evidence of the factthat high specialized language competence is basically the result of effective reading rather than the number of hours spent on readingsomething.
News Episodes in Advance Level Classes Bahrani, Taher
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): September 2011
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Today, having access to audio/visual mass media programs such as TV and radio news is very easy for all the people aroundthe world. In the same line, many studies have emphasized the pedagogical values of TV and radio programs to be used in languagelearning. Accordingly, the present study tries to investigate the effect of listening to TV and radio news on improving language learners’speaking proficiency at the advance level. For this purpose, a speaking test was administered to two hundred language learners and finallysixty language learners were selected as advance language learners and randomly divided into group one and group two. During theexperiment, group one participants had exposure to TV news to work on in-and out-side the classroom. On the contrary, the participantsin group two had only exposure to a sample selected utterances extracted from different kinds of TV and radio programs rather thannews. At the end of the experiment, both groups took another sample speaking test to see whether or not any changes happened regardingtheir speaking proficiency. The results of the post-test showed that the two groups performed differently on the post-test which wasindicative of the fact that exposure to mass media news promote language learners’ speaking proficiency at the advance level.
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