| The Relationship between Text Type, Cultural elements, and Language Learning |
| کد مقاله : 1050-ELTCONF7. (R1) |
| نویسندگان |
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Saeid Rahimipour * عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه فرهنگیان- مدیر گروه زبان و ادبیات- پردیس شهید مدرس- ایلام |
| چکیده مقاله |
| Texts have recently achieved a great status in language teaching circles. The main texts and the accompanying supplementary texts have proved highly lenient for being culture-based. In Iranian high schools, the deployment of different types of genres as accompanying materials alongside the national textbooks have been under suspicion for years but recently, they have got drastic attention and attraction. The paper has tried to show how historical, news, and literary texts are viewed as supplementary teaching materials with a reference cultural conceptualization phenomena accompanying them. This paper via an eclectic approach has tried a true experimental design and research. The paper through questionnaire and open-ended questions’ analyses as well as cross comparison of the means of the experimental and control groups’ scores using SPSS. The paper revealed he merits and demerits it may have culturally, namely participation, social interaction, group cooperation, and cultural conceptualization regarding these groups’ assertions on this genre-orientated supplementary materials. It clearly showed the superiority of literary materials over the others. Finally, it revealed the better performance of girls on final tests in comparison with the boys. Generally, supplementary materials had a positive impact on the learners’ cultural conceptualization. They help the learners to understand the culture loaded aspect of language learning and language materials. Hence, the deployment of supplementary materials and above all literary ones is strongly recommended. The introduction of cultural elements of the materials which are best crystalized in literary materials is suggested |
| کلیدواژه ها |
| Authentic Materials, Cultural Conceptualization, Language Learning, High School Students |
| وضعیت: پذیرفته شده برای ارائه شفاهی |