Sahar Nami (Department of English Language, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj) & Dr. Kamran Janfeshan (Department of English Language, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah), Iran
This study was an attempt to investigate the EFL students’ perception of different consciousness–raising grammatical tasks across proficiency levels (pre-intermediate, intermediate, advanced). Based on the purpose of the study 30 female EFL learners in 3 levels from were randomly selected. 10 participants were pre-intermediate, 10 participants were intermediate, 10 participants were advanced. The present research attempted to know which method that is to say consciousness raising CR tasks or traditional method was more comprehensible for participants to learn grammar. This study was descriptive, the results of the qualitative part of the present research was investigated through questionnaire. Task evaluation questionnaire developed and validated by Mohamed (2004) was used to know the students’ perception of consciousness raising tasks from three levels. The results indicated that learners had positive perceptions towards CR tasks as a means for learning of English grammar this study revealed that CR is a more effective means of improving learners’ grammar than traditional approach (PPP). The finding in this study also showed that most of students agreed with consciousness raising tasks because they believed that whatever is learned by themselves can be stuck in mind for a longer time.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
