Shiva Moftakhari Hajimirzaei (MA); Hassan Asadzadeh (PhD); Yousef Karimi (PhD)
Volume 6, Issue 18 , October 2010, , Pages 104-130
Abstract
his study aimed to investigate the effect of training learning strategies (cognitive and metacognitive) on working memory performance of high school girl students in Tehran city. The statistical society comprised all the high school girl students in Tehran in the academic year of 1387-88. Among them, ...
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his study aimed to investigate the effect of training learning strategies (cognitive and metacognitive) on working memory performance of high school girl students in Tehran city. The statistical society comprised all the high school girl students in Tehran in the academic year of 1387-88. Among them, 175 people were selected using cluster sampling method. Then, performing working memory test (adapted from Daneman and Carpenter, 1980) and forty-four integrated questionnaire of learning strategies (Karami, 1381), 40 students who scored lower than the average in the two tests were selected. Then, 20 subjects were randomly replaced in the control group and 20 others in the experimental group. Experimental group were trained learning strategies for 10 sessions of one hour per week. After training sessions, working memory of both control and experimental groups were measured. Data obtained from pre-test and post-test, were analyzed using t test for independent groups. Findings showed that knowledge and use of cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies has a positive effect on working memory performance. These results may have some implications for effective teaching and learning which will be discussed in the present paper.
Hassan Asadzadeh (PhD); Sara Mamoodi Rad (MA); Noorali Faroukhi (PhD
Volume 4, Issue 12 , July 2008, , Pages 22-39
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of schema theory-based teaching and traditional teaching of English language in high school students. Statistical society comprised all the girls’ students in first grade of district 5 Education, in Tehran city. In order to choose the ...
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The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of schema theory-based teaching and traditional teaching of English language in high school students. Statistical society comprised all the girls’ students in first grade of district 5 Education, in Tehran city. In order to choose the statistical sample, one high school was randomly selected from nineteen schools in that district which contained two classes whit 76 students. Considering that this was an experimental research, asked the students to take a pretest from second lesson of the English book at the beginning. Statistical analyses do not show a significant difference between the results of two classes. Therefore, one class was randomly selected as experimental group and the other one as control group. Then, a lesson was taught to the experimental group based on the schema theory and to the control group in traditional method. An equivalent test was held from both groups and results were analyzed using t test. Results revealed that there is a significant difference between the mean of the posttests in experimental and control groups (a=0.05). Students who were taught based on schema theory in comparison whit that taught based on traditional method, gained higher scores in the posttest. These results could have some implications in effective teaching and learning which will be discussed in this article.