خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Impact of Task-based Activities on the Reading Skill of Iranian EFL Young Learners at the Beginner Level Arshya Keyvanfar 1 Mona Modarresi Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch Task-based learning and teaching in the realm of teaching young learners is still considered an adventure since very few experimental studies to date have tackled its applicability in that age group.
The present research was an attempt to find out whether using task-based reading activities has any impact on the development of text comprehension in Iranian young learners studying English as a foreign language at the beginner level.
TBLT in Action Within the varying interpretations of TBLT related to classroom practice, recent studies exhibit three recurrent features: TBLT is compatible with a learner-centered educational philosophy (Ellis, 2003; Richards & Rodgers, 2001); it consists of particular components such as goal, procedure, specific outcome (Skehan, 1998), and it advocates content-oriented meaningful activities rather than linguistic forms (Breen, 1987).
That is why task-based reading activities may prove to be a good means of integrating the four skills and fostering effective language learning because such activities are done with the purpose of comprehending something, reaching a conclusion and/or creating a whole picture of something within a pre-set frame (Nunan, 1989).
To recap, it can be said that, the researcher found a statistically significant difference between the reading performances of the experimental and control groups when comparing their mean scores both on the reading posttest and the follow-up test."