Comparing the effect of student self-instruction and teacher-directed instruction in teaching ESP for first year Iraqi students at college of physical education for women

الملخص EN

-Autonomous learning and effective self-regulatory strategies are becoming increasingly important in foreign language learning as, without these, students might not be able to exploit the learning opportunities outside language classrooms.

The aim of the current research is to invest age scientifically the effect of teacher-directed instruction and student-self instruction in teaching English for students at College of Physical Education and comparing between them.

It has hypothesized that there is no differences between pre and post tests between student-self instruction and teacher-directed instruction in the achievement of students in English.

Also, there is no difference between pre tests and post tests of student-self instruction and teacher-directed instruction.

The sample of the research has chosen randomly among four sections.

The number of the sample is 21 students from first year at College of Physical Education for Women at the academic study 2012-2013.

The experiment last the whole year.

The results of the research have shown that there is no difference between student-self instruction and teacher-directed instruction in pre and post tests.

Also, the teacher-directed instruction has better achievement from student-self instruction in students’ achievement in English.

It has recommended that English instructors might add some autonomy in the lectures to the students with the directed instruction from the instructor.

English instructors should encourage the students to learn by themselves outside the lecture.