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Hassan Soodmand Afshar

Hassan Soodmand Afshar

Academic rank: Professor
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Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 56544537200
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Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
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Research

Title
An Evaluation of Grammar and Vocabulary Consciousness-Raising Activities in Current ELT Materials
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Grammar and vocabulary consciousness raising activities; current international ELT series; materials evaluation
Year
2015
Journal Teaching English Language-آموزش زبان انگلیسی - انجمن زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی ایران
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Researchers Hassan Soodmand Afshar ،

Abstract

The present study evaluated five current international ELT series regarding inclusion of grammar and vocabulary consciousness raising activities. Drawing upon Willis and Willis (1996) and Graves and Taffe (2007), a Likert-scale questionnaire was developed and validated which was completed by 90 Iranian EFL teachers and 170 Iranian EFL students, forty of whom (20 teachers and 20 students) also sat an interview. The results of inferential statistics (i.e. Independent Samples t-test and Chi-square analysis) revealed there was no significant difference between the responses of the teachers and students in this respect. That is, the results of the questionnaire combined with content analysis of the interviews and subjective evaluation of the researchers indicated although the ELT series incorporated different kinds of grammar and vocabulary activities, they did not include some of the major grammar and vocabulary consciousness raising activities (e.g., making generalizations, cross-referencing, reconstructing, discussing word choices, researching about vocabularies, etc.).