Planning Time: A Mediating Technique between Fluency and Accuracy in Task-Based Teaching

Subject Areas : آموزش زبان انگلیسی

افسر روحی ¹ ( Payame Noor University, Ardebil Branch )
افسانه سعید اختر ² ( Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch )

Received: 2016-08-19 Accepted : 2016-08-19 Published : 2008-02-20

Keywords: Accuracy, No-planning, Undetailed Pre-Task Planning, Detailed Pre-Task Planning, Dysfluency,

Abstract :

Task-based instruction is arguably associated with fostering fluent L2 speech distant from native-like accuracy. Of several methodological options recommended for accounting for accuracy problems of meaning-first approaches to language teaching, planning time has been explored in this study. Three groups of English majors watched a cartoon and narrated their accounts of watching under no-planning, undetailed pre-task planning and detailed pre-task planning conditions. To measure the accuracy and dysfluency of their L2 production, the collected data were coded for the number of error-free clauses, the number of total clauses and also for repetitions, false starts, reformulations and replacements. One-way ANOVAs run on the data revealed that detailed pre-task planning might result in more accurate and less dysfluent language than undetailed pre-task planning which in turn might lead to more accurate and less dysfluent language than no-planning condition.

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