University of Kurdistan Critical Literary Studies 2676-699X 5 1 2023 01 04 Exploring the Effects of Dynamic Assessment on Improving Iranian Quran Learners’ Recitation Performance 159 176 62525 10.34785/J014.2023.010 EN Afsheen Rezai Assistant Professor, Teaching English and Linguistics Department, University of Ayatollah Burojerdi, Burojerd, Iran Ehsan Namaziandost Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (TEFL), Department of General Courses, Ahavaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. Ayub Amraei Assistant Professor, Department of Quranic and Hadith Sciences, University of Ayatollah Burojerdi, Burojerd, Iran Journal Article 2021 12 14 Although Dynamic Assessment (DA), rooted in Vygotsky’s (1978) Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) notion, has been extensively researched in teaching English as a foreign language, it has remained largely unexplored in teaching Arabic as a foreign language. To bridge this long-lasting gap, this study purports to investigate the effects of DA on improving Iranian Quran learners’ recitation performance. For this purpose, two intact grade 7 classes were selected at a public high school in Borujerd city, Iran, and were assigned randomly as DA group (n=21) and non-DA group (n=23). Later, they went through a pre-test, intervention (offered based on the principles and procedures of DA for the DA group and held in 15 sessions), immediate post-test, and delayed post-test. The collected data were analyzed through a one-way ANCOVA. Findings documented that the DA group outperformed the non-DA group on the immediate post-test. Additionally, the results evidenced that the DA group outweighed the control group on the delayed post-test. The study ends with proposing some implications in consistent with the tenets of Sociocultural theory. https://cls.uok.ac.ir/article_62525_fa78315c82256f6d063ce04a1638c0c8.pdf