English Review: Journal of English Education
Vol 5, No 2 (2017)

THE EFFECT OF USING SHORT SILENT ANIMATIONS ON EFL LEARNERS’ WRITING

Hamid Marashi (Islamic Azad University at Central Tehran)
Hedieh Adiban (Islamic Azad University at Central Tehran)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Jun 2017

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of short silent animations on pre-intermediate EFL learners’ writing. A homogenized group of 60 participants was non-randomly chosen and assigned as the control and experimental groups. Those in the control group watched five short animations with dialogue, while those in the experimental group had five short animations which were silent. The procedure lasted 10 sessions. In both groups, the participants were asked to write five writings regarding the subjects of the animations during the term and each of the writings should have contained a minimum of 90 and maximum of 140 words. The participants were provided both oral and written feedback. At the end of the instruction, a sample PET writing posttest was administered to both groups, an independent samples t-test was run on the mean scores of the two groups, and the results (t = -2.02, p = 0.0370.05) revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group. Keywords: ELT, silent animations, writing

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ERJEE

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

ENGLISH REVIEW: Journal of English Education (ISSN print 2301-7554) is a peer-reviewed journal published in Indonesia by the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Kuningan (PBI FKIP UNIKU) in collaboration with the Association of Indonesian ...