The role of cultural familiarity toward reading comprehension and motivation among Iranian students

Familiarity with cultural perspective of reading text is one of the significant issues in language learning classrooms. The lack of sufficient knowledge of learners regarding the target culture of language costs them some difficulties to comprehend the target reading text. For this reason, learner?s...

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Main Author:	Ghaderpour, Mahsa
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	LB Theory and practice of education
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/42230/5/MahsaGhaderpourMFP2013.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.422302017-07-18T07:26:47Z The role of cultural familiarity toward reading comprehension and motivation among Iranian students 2013-05 Ghaderpour, Mahsa LB Theory and practice of education Familiarity with cultural perspective of reading text is one of the significant issues in language learning classrooms. The lack of sufficient knowledge of learners regarding the target culture of language costs them some difficulties to comprehend the target reading text. For this reason, learner?s motivation would be decreased to acquire the new language. This study has attempted to discover the importance of cultural background knowledge toward reading comprehension and also participants motivation. Hence, quantitative method was conducted and 30 Iranian students who joined IEC classes in University Technology of Malaysia participated in this study. For the purpose of identify the role of background study, the original and nativised texts were given to participants. They also expressed their motivation toward cultural perspective through a 5-point Likert Scale survey questionnaire. The results indicated that cultural background knowledge enhances the comprehension of reading text as well as motivation toward learning the new language. The pedagogical implications of the findings imply the significant role of cultural background knowledge in the English language learning classroom. Hence, the integration of cultural perspective with language instruction in the foreign language learning classroom was recommended in this study. 2013-05 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/42230/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/42230/5/MahsaGhaderpourMFP2013.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Education Faculty of Education
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spellingShingle	LB Theory and practice of education Ghaderpour, Mahsa The role of cultural familiarity toward reading comprehension and motivation among Iranian students
description	Familiarity with cultural perspective of reading text is one of the significant issues in language learning classrooms. The lack of sufficient knowledge of learners regarding the target culture of language costs them some difficulties to comprehend the target reading text. For this reason, learner?s motivation would be decreased to acquire the new language. This study has attempted to discover the importance of cultural background knowledge toward reading comprehension and also participants motivation. Hence, quantitative method was conducted and 30 Iranian students who joined IEC classes in University Technology of Malaysia participated in this study. For the purpose of identify the role of background study, the original and nativised texts were given to participants. They also expressed their motivation toward cultural perspective through a 5-point Likert Scale survey questionnaire. The results indicated that cultural background knowledge enhances the comprehension of reading text as well as motivation toward learning the new language. The pedagogical implications of the findings imply the significant role of cultural background knowledge in the English language learning classroom. Hence, the integration of cultural perspective with language instruction in the foreign language learning classroom was recommended in this study.
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author	Ghaderpour, Mahsa
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title	The role of cultural familiarity toward reading comprehension and motivation among Iranian students
title_short	The role of cultural familiarity toward reading comprehension and motivation among Iranian students
title_full	The role of cultural familiarity toward reading comprehension and motivation among Iranian students
title_fullStr	The role of cultural familiarity toward reading comprehension and motivation among Iranian students
title_full_unstemmed	The role of cultural familiarity toward reading comprehension and motivation among Iranian students
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publishDate	2013
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