a survey on the effect of computer-assisted language teaching, in contrast to the traditional method, on non-native persian learners’ performance

computer-assisted language instruction (cali) is one of the recent advances in teaching languages. cali is considered as an effective teaching methodology. this research is a comparative study of the effect of two teaching methods; cali and traditional, on persian reading comprehension of female students in pre-university level of international school in tehran in 1390. statistical community includes 30 students who were selected by random sampling and divided into two groups. research method in this study is experimental and the measurement tool used is a questionnaire. in data analysis from descriptive statistics methods (frequency, mean & standard deviation) as well as inferential statistics method, (t-test) were used. the results showed a significant difference between the experimental and the control group regarding their mean scores. those learners who were learning through cali were more successful. these learners mentioned the following as the factors leading to their success: more chance of collaboration with the teacher through internet which provided them with more feedback, online access to the teacher, and collaborative learning environment.