چکیده:
The present study investigated the impact of bilingual education on language achievement of Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL learners. It actually used bilingual education through content- based methodology or subject matter such as math, science and reading. To this purpose, the researchers used 40 Pre-intermediate EFL participants who were studying English conversation at a private language institute in Sari. These learners were chosen and divided randomly into control and experimental groups. Both groups took the same test as a pretest. The experimental group had access to bilingual education methodology through math, science and reading, while in the control group, participants had no special treatment. They had just access to the conversation by the use of conversation methodology which was assigned by the institute curriculum. After nineteen sessions, the posttest was administrated to both control and experimental groups. Based on the obtained results, a significant difference was observed between the mean scores of the two groups on the posttest. In fact, the null-hypothesis was rejected as the experimental group performed significantly better on the posttest.
خلاصه ماشینی:
An Investigation of the Effect of Bilingual Education on Language Achievement of Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL Learners Marzieh Taheri, PhD Candidate in TEFL, Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon, Iran Taheri_ell@yahoo.
com Abstract The present study investigated the impact of bilingual education on language achievement of Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL learners.
The present study will examine the effects of a bilingual education in English-only program on general language achievement of Iranian Pre-intermediate ESL learners.
Sought to better understand bilingual education and world language education and to formulate strategies to close the achievement gap between English language learners and other students, the researcher tried to work at this area second language acquisition.
The present study aims to answer the following research question: Does bilingual education have any effect on language achievement of Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL learners?
Based on the above research question, the researcher formulated the following null hypothesis: Ho: Bilingual education has no effect on language achievement of Iranian pre- intermediate EFL learners.
34 This study used an independent sample t-test to compare the effect of bilingual education on language achievement of elementary foreign language learners.
Analysis of the research question The research question of this study was as follow: RQ: Does bilingual education have any effect on language achievement of Iranian elementary EFL learners?
The purpose of researchers was to find out any significant impact of bilingual education on language achievement of Iranian pre- intermediate EFL learners.