The use of both the first and second language vs. just the second language on the student’s achievement in reading comprehension of general English texts (monolingual policy vs. bilingual policy)
Journal Title: Journal of Science and today’s world - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
ESL and EFL teaching in Iran, as in many parts of the world, receive political, economic and legislative support from the government. One of the on-going debates among language teachers is that of whether or not to use the students' first language (L1) in second language (L2) classrooms or learning environments. The focus of this study was to compare monolingual vs. bilingualism in teaching of English in the English language classroom, in particular this study attempts to answer the following question: *Which approach, monolingual or bilingualism, will be more effective for reading comprehension of general English text for EFL or ESL learners?In order to investigate the afore- mentioned questions, a sample population100 university students were selected, and divided in to two groups, 46 students in first group and 54 students in second group, for two successive sessions , researcher taught two reading texts(each session one text) in both English and Farsi for the first group (bilingual group) and same texts just in English for the second group(monolingual group), for this group researcher never use Farsi, and made unknown vocabulary comprehensible by using very simple English word ,At the end of two sessions, a quiz was administered for two groups at same time to measure students comprehension, the quiz contains a text which has similar vocabulary with two taught texts. It contains 10 multiple choice questions. To analyze the obtained data, a t- test computation was applied, the data showed that: *Bilingual students performed better than monolingual students, which imply that when students and teachers use first language in addition to second language in ESL and EFL class in order to make material more comprehensible, learn material and evenL2 language better than those students and teachers that just use second language in the class.
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Simin Chalipa
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