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عنوان	The effect of expert peers and coequals' scaffolding strategies on listening comprehension development of iranian EFL learners
نوع پژوهش	پایان نامه
کلیدواژه‌ها	Zone of proximal development, scaffolding, listening comprehension, expert peers, co-equals
چکیده	Drawing on Sociocultural theory, and a large number of empirical studies conducted on the effectiveness of scaffolding on second or foreign language learning, this study investigates the application of scaffolding to improve listening comprehension of the Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To this end 90 intermediate EFL learners were randomly assigned to two experimental and one control groups. During 15 treatment sessions of listening comprehension instruction, the expert peers in the first group assisted the learners in their team to do the listening comprehension practices. Similar to group one, the learners in the second experimental group were asked to assist their co-equals to do the tasks and practices. The participants in group three did not interact with each other or the teacher while doing the listening episodes’ follow up tasks. Using one-way ANOVA and post hoc analyses the performance of the learners in experimental and control groups were compared. The study reveals that the expert peers’ scaffolding was the most effective procedure for the intermediate EFL subjects' listening comprehension development. Furthermore, the co-equals’ scaffolding proved to be the second successful process for the listening comprehension improvement. The findings of this study underscore the positive potentiality of scaffolding in its different forms for the EFL learners' listening comprehension development.
پژوهشگران	محمد احمدی صفا (استاد راهنما)، فاطمه روضاتی (دانشجو)