The effect of teaching different genres on listening comprehension performance of iranian EFL students

Abstract

With ever growing need of genre based instruction, it seems listening comprehension is being marginalized in both research and material development of genre based instruction. In this research four genres of narrative, argumentative, descriptive and expository were presented to 23 (n=23) male intermediate Iranian EFL students with thorough introduction to each genre. The control group, 22 male intermediate students (n=22) also received the same materials but in random order and without any introduction to genres of the listening input. The results of the study states that genre based listening input and introduction to genres does have positive impact on listening comprehension of Iranian EFL students. © 2014 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland.