Alireza Badeleh
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of smart boards and the application of grammar translation and audio-lingual teaching methods in the process of learning, retention (memorization) of first grade English Language lessons of first grade of secondary smart schools. The population ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of smart boards and the application of grammar translation and audio-lingual teaching methods in the process of learning, retention (memorization) of first grade English Language lessons of first grade of secondary smart schools. The population consisted of all female students in the first grade high school in Tabriz, who have been studying in high schools in five districts of the city in the school year of 92-93 (N=17821out of this 10051 students were males and 7769 were females. They ware sampled with simple random sampling method and the research method is a quasi-experimental research with pretest and posttest design with control and experimental groups. For analyzing data, descriptive statistics, measures of central indexes, median indexes were used, for average and standard deviation, variance and deductive statistics were used; for analyzing equality of control and experiment groups, independent T was used; and for comparing the scores of the two groups, Two-way ANOVA was used. Results indicated that the difference in the process of learning the retention in both experimental and control groups in the use of electronic board has been clear and significant. Also the results suggest that teaching through smart board along with the audio-lingual method is efficient which is applied in learning and retention of speaking skill and this effect is stronger than the application of smart board along with the application of grammar translation method for improving the process of learning and retention in reading skills.
