Mahmoud Saa’edi Asl & Ahmad Cha’b
Allameh Tabatabai’ University, Iran
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of pictorial materials on enhancing the English writing performance of Iranian secondary students. The subjects selected randomly, were 40 male students studying in pre-university secondary schools. For the research purpose, the researcher designed two different types of pictures- strips and non-strips. He, then, divided the participants into two main groups as high and low achievers and then each group into two subgroups, each with 10 students and tested the materials with them. For the data analysis, the statistical procedure –ANOVA- was run to compare the performances of these four groups. The results of the study showed that the pictorial materials specially the strips pictures had positive effects on the student’s performance and developed the students’ abilities in writing English paragraphs. Moreover, it was revealed that the students who used the program were motivated and their performance was influenced positively. It was found that using picture series improved the students’ quality of writing.
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The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Third International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 31 January-1February 2019 , Ahwaz.
