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The effect of planning time on the fluency, accuracy, and complexity of EFL learners’ oral production
Other Title(s)
أثر الزمن التخطيط على الطلاقة و الدقة و تعقيد للغة الشفوية لمتعلمي اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية
Joint Authors
Ba Manqar, Ibrahim Muhammad
Jashan, Amani Khalid
Source
Journal of Educational Sciences
Issue
Vol. 27, Issue 1 (28 Feb. 2015), pp.161-175, 15 p.
Publisher
King Saud University College of Education
Publication Date
2015-02-28
Country of Publication
Saudi Arabia
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Topics
- Teaching methods
- Schools
- Students
- Secondary education
- Teaching
- Saudi Arabia
- Twenty-first century
- English language
Abstract EN
Abstract: The provision of pre-task planning time for second language speech tasks holds some promise as a way to promote focus on form in tandem with meaning-focused instruction.
This study explored the effect of planning time on EFL learners’ task-based oral performance.
The participants were 52 Saudi high school students from Riyadh, divided randomly into experimental and control groups and asked to perform the task respectively with five minutes’ pre-task planning and without any planning time.
The performances were recorded and transcribed to measure the fluency, accuracy and complexity of the speech production.
T-test results showed that pre-task planning participants significantly outperformed the non-planners.
Thus, this study indicated that when learners are given pre-task planning time they are able to produce more fluent, accurate, and complex language than those asked to start doing the task immediately, without planning time.
The study did not find any evidence of trade-off competition between fluency, accuracy, and complexity.
The study recommended that language learners need to be familiarized with planning time and teachers are required to be trained with planning time activities in order to get better gains.
Overall, these results provided important pedagogical implications and suggested useful future research directions
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ba Manqar, Ibrahim Muhammad& Jashan, Amani Khalid. 2015. The effect of planning time on the fluency, accuracy, and complexity of EFL learners’ oral production. Journal of Educational Sciences،Vol. 27, no. 1, pp.161-175.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-823869
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ba Manqar, Ibrahim Muhammad& Jashan, Amani Khalid. The effect of planning time on the fluency, accuracy, and complexity of EFL learners’ oral production. Journal of Educational Sciences Vol. 27, no. 1 (Feb. 2015), pp.161-175.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-823869
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ba Manqar, Ibrahim Muhammad& Jashan, Amani Khalid. The effect of planning time on the fluency, accuracy, and complexity of EFL learners’ oral production. Journal of Educational Sciences. 2015. Vol. 27, no. 1, pp.161-175.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-823869
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Record ID
BIM-823869