1、3700 英文单词， 2 万英文字符 ， 中文 6150 字 文献出处： Ghazanfari M, Ziaee M, Sharifianfar E. The impact of illustrations on recall of short storiesJ. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014, 98: 572-579. The Impact of Illustrations on Recall of Short Stories Mohammad Ghazanfari, Mahsa Ziaee, Ehsan Sharifianfar
2、 Abstract Drawing on the tenets of generative learning theory, proposed by Wittrock (1992), the present study examined to what extent providing EFL students with short stories accompanied with illustrations, drawn by an artist, portraying some scenes relevant to the content of the stories, might inf
3、luence the recall of major features of the fictional texts. A sample of Michigan proficiency test was initially administered to 75 intermediate female students at Parax Language Institute (PLI), in Mashhad, Iran, and those who scored within the range of one standard deviation above and below the mea
4、n were selected as the participants of the study (N=54). Then, they were randomly assigned to two equal groups (a control and an experimental group), each consisting of 27 homogenous students. The participants were given three short stories. The experimental group received the illustrated version of
5、 the stories. However, the control group was merely given the text of the same stories. Four weeks after presenting the texts, both groups were given a recall test of multiple-choice format. The findings revealed that students who were given the texts accompanied with illustrations outscored the con
6、trol group, suggesting that illustrated short stories are likely to enhance the recall of such texts by EFL learners. Keywords: Wittrocks generative theory; Illustrations; Literary prose texts; Recall 1. Introduction As human beings and members of a social community, we normally have to deal with reading materials of different types every day: Newspapers, magazines, books, various electronic texts, and the like. For academic people, the issue is undoubtedly far more crucial; as part of their
