the role of thematic structure in comprehending spoken language

in fact this study is concerned with the relationship between the variation in thematice structure and the comprehension of spoken language. so the study focused on the following questions: 1. is there any relationship between thematic structure and the comprehension of spoken language? 2. which of the themes would have greated thematic force and be easier for the subjects to comprehend? accordingly, the following null hypotheses were set forth: 1. there would be no relationship between the variation in thematic structure and comprehending spoken language. 2. there would be no fifference between the kind of theme and the comprehension of spoken language. in this study, the independent variable had more than two levels, so in order to determine and discover whether the levels of the independent variable differ in how they influence the subjects performance on the dependent variable, two way anova and scheffe test were used. the study was done on the basis of a counterbalanced design. the homogeneity of subjects was determinded through the administration of a michigan test and running a one-way anova over subjects score on listening test. three groups of sophomore students majoring in english literature and translation at allameh tabatabaie university were selected. the information presented table iv .1 reveals that the observed for f (in two-way anova) exceed the f-critical value. therefore, the first null hypothesis is rejected at .01 level. also the information presented in tables iv .2, iv .3, and iv .4 reveals that t-observed values exceed the t-critical values at .05 and .01 level of significancy. so the second null hypothesis is rejected.