Journal of Language Horizons, Alzahra University — 87 Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring – Summer 2018


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Journal of Language HorizonsAlzahra University
— 87
Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring – Summer 2018 (Biannual – Serial No. 3)
— 87
 
 
 
 
 
Using Information-Gap 
Tasks to Improve Reading: 
An Analysis of Cognitive 
Styles
1
 
 
Hamid Marashi*
2
 
Parissa Mehdizadeh
3
 
 
Received: 2018/05/31 | Revised: 2018/09/03 | Accepted: 2018/11/06 
 
 
Abstract
This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of information-gap 
tasks on field-dependent (FD) and field-independent (FI) EFL learners’ 
reading comprehension. For this purpose, 61 learners out of a total num-
ber of 120 existing intermediate learners studying at a language school in 
Tehran were chosen through their performance on a piloted sample 
Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET) and subsequently on the 
Group Embedded Figure Test (GEFT). Overall, there were 33 FD and 28 FI 
learners undergoing the information-gap task treatment. Furthermore, an 
independent samples t-test was run on the mean scores of the two groups 
on the reading section of the sample PET, thereby proving that they were 
homogeneous at the outset in terms of their reading. Another sample PET 
reading section was administered as the posttest of the study after each 
group was exposed to 15 treatment sessions. At the end of the instruc-
tion, another independent samples t-test was run on the mean scores of 
1
DOI: 10.22051/lghor.2018.20594.1082 
2
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran, 
(corresponding author); hamid.marashi@iauctb.ac.ir 
3
MA in TEFL, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran; parisamehdizadeh26@yahoo.com 


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Using Information-Gap Tasks to Improve Reading: An Analy-sis of Cognitive Styles
the two experimental groups in the posttest with the results indicating 
that there was no significant difference between the two groups’ reading 
skill.

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