The Role of Planning Time in Foreign Language Narrative Written Production: Focusing on Accuracy
Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies
1 - Department of English, Takestan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Takestan, Iran
Keywords: Accuracy, Planning, writing performance, task,
Abstract :
The present study was an attempt to investigate the effects of two types of task planning onforeign language narrative written production. Particularly it addressed the issue of how accuracyvary among two different types of task planning (i.e. pre-task strategic planning condition &unpressured within-task planning condition). The participants were 45 EFL university studentsmajoring the English translation. The participants were randomly assigned into three groups. Inthe strategic planning group, the participants were given ten minutes to plan in advance but theywere asked to complete the task within a limited time. In the unpressured within-task planninggroup, the participants were asked to write down their text immediately but no time limit wasallotted to this group. In the no-planning group, participants were asked to perform the main taskperformance immediately within a limited time, so, they were given a zero-planning time. Theresults of statistical analysis showed that both strategic planning and unpressured within-taskplanning have statistically significance effect on accuracy of foreign language narrative writtenproduction; however, no significant difference was evident between the performances of the twogroups in terms of accuracy.
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