International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1

Impact of language school's education on english reading skill of Iranian EFL Students

  • Author:
  • Gholam Valizadeh, Gholam-Ali Kalanzadeh
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 112 to 122

*Department of English Language, Andimeshk Branch, Islamic Azad University, Andimeshk, Iran

**Farhangiyan University, Iran

Online published on 24 January, 2015.

Abstract

This research intends to study the effect of Language School Education on English Reading skill of Students of Junior High Schools in Rasht. The statistical community of this research includes all the Students of Junior High Schools in 90–91 academic year. A sample including 40 students is selected by multistage random sampling method. To evaluate the studied variants, the Informal English Reading Inventory (IRI) examination tool is used. The correlated t test is used in this research. The results of t test show that there is a significant difference between the English Reading speed pre-test and post-test (t=3.94 in 0.001 level.); there is no difference between English Reading comprehension pre-test and post-test (t=0.0001 in 0.05 level); there is no difference between accuracy pre-test and post-test (t=-1 in 0.05 level)

Keywords

Language Schools, English Reading skill, Students, Education