The Effect of User-Friendly Texts vs. Impersonal and Hybird Texts on the Reading Comprehension Ability of Iranaian EFL Learners

This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of iranian foreign language learners. forty-five students of alzahra university were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent toefl. they were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of english usage, which were all followed by a reading comprehension test. also, a questionnaire containing two questions was given to the participants in order to tap their own personal feelings. series of one-way anov a displayed that the mean differences among the three groups were significant at 0.05 level and the user-friendly group outperformed the other ones.