Comparing the effectiveness of schema theory-based teaching and traditional teaching of English language in high school students

The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of schema theory-based teaching and traditional teaching of English language in high school students. Statistical society comprised all the girls’ students in first grade of district 5 Education, in Tehran city. In order to choose the statistical sample, one high school was randomly selected from nineteen schools in that district which contained two classes whit 76 students. Considering that this was an experimental research, asked the students to take a pretest from second lesson of the English book at the beginning. Statistical analyses do not show a significant difference between the results of two classes. Therefore, one class was randomly selected as experimental group and the other one as control group. Then, a lesson was taught to the experimental group based on the schema theory and to the control group in traditional method. An equivalent test was held from both groups and results were analyzed using t test. Results revealed that there is a significant difference between the mean of the posttests in experimental and control groups (a=0.05). Students who were taught based on schema theory in comparison whit that taught based on traditional method, gained higher scores in the posttest. These results could have some implications in effective teaching and learning which will be discussed in this article.