Iranian Journal of Applied Linguistics

en The Effects of Receptive and Productive Learning and Teaching on Learning Medical Terminology and Reading Comprehension The Effects of Receptive and Productive Learning and Teaching on Learning Medical Terminology and Reading Comprehension تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">The current study was conducted to examine the effect of receptive and productive types of learning medical terminology and vocabulary on medical students' reading comprehension to understand which one is more useful to improve reading comprehension of medical texts. Participants included 70 students (male= 36, female= 34) at the School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, who were assigned into control and experimental groups where medical terminologies and words were taught receptively and productively, respectively. Four standardized tests were administered to measure students' medical reading comprehension as well as receptive and productive medical terminology and vocabulary knowledge. Later, participants were asked to write a short medical report to understand the possible difference in the effects of the two productive and receptive vocabulary teaching strategies on their actual language production. The study concluded that all the participants who completed the productive and receptive tasks had higher scores on the posttest. In other words, the results of the study, following the related descriptive statistics and independent sample t-tests, indicated that both receptive and productive learning can be effective methods of improving reading comprehension skill of medical texts although the productive method was observed to be slightly, but not significantly, more effective.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">The current study was conducted to examine the effect of receptive and productive types of learning medical terminology and vocabulary on medical students' reading comprehension to understand which one is more useful to improve reading comprehension of medical texts. Participants included 70 students (male= 36, female= 34) at the School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, who were assigned into control and experimental groups where medical terminologies and words were taught receptively and productively, respectively. Four standardized tests were administered to measure students' medical reading comprehension as well as receptive and productive medical terminology and vocabulary knowledge. Later, participants were asked to write a short medical report to understand the possible difference in the effects of the two productive and receptive vocabulary teaching strategies on their actual language production. The study concluded that all the participants who completed the productive and receptive tasks had higher scores on the posttest. In other words, the results of the study, following the related descriptive statistics and independent sample t-tests, indicated that both receptive and productive learning can be effective methods of improving reading comprehension skill of medical texts although the productive method was observed to be slightly, but not significantly, more effective.</div> Receptive learning, Productive learning, Reading Comprehension, Medical Terminology, Vocabulary, Writing Receptive learning, Productive learning, Reading Comprehension, Medical Terminology, Vocabulary, Writing 1 20 http://ijal.khu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1420-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Hadi Azimi Hadi Azimi hadi.azimi@marmara.edu.tr 10031947532846002777 10031947532846002777 Yes Department of English Language Teaching, Atatürk Faculty of Education, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey Marmara University Zeinab Jahangiri Zeinab Jahangiri 10031947532846002778 10031947532846002778 No Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University Mohammad Barzegar Rahatlou Mohammad Barzegar Rahatlou 10031947532846002779 10031947532846002779 No Iran University of Medical Sciences Iran University of Medical Sciences