The Effect of Intensive Teaching of Conditional Sentences Type One on Iranian Grade Three High School Students’ Writing Ability

This study investigated the effectiveness of intensive teaching of conditional sentences type one on Iranian grade three high school students’ writing ability. To this end, to get the objective, 30 female grade three level high school students with the age range of 16 at Shahid Beheshti School in Go...

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Main Authors: Banafshe Farhangi, Dr. Majid Pourmohammadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lasting Impressions Press 2018-08-01
Series:International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies
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Online Access:http://www.eltsjournal.org/archive/value6%20issue3/11-6-3-18.pdf
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Summary:This study investigated the effectiveness of intensive teaching of conditional sentences type one on Iranian grade three high school students’ writing ability. To this end, to get the objective, 30 female grade three level high school students with the age range of 16 at Shahid Beheshti School in Goorabzarmikh, SomeSara, Iran were selected from 80 students based on their performance on Quick Placement Test. They were randomly divided into two groups, an experimental and a control. Those in the experimental group received eight-session treatment that was the use of intensive teaching of the conditional sentence type one and, on the other hand, those in the control group received eight-session through normal regular teaching method. In normal regular teaching method, teacher used textbooks and traditional method in teaching the grammatical points. A posttest was then administered to both groups. The results revealed that the experimental group that utilized intensive teaching of first conditional sentences made a noticeably higher progress in terms of their writing ability than the control one.
ISSN:2308-5460
2308-5460