Effect of Consciousness-raising via Vocabulary Input Flooding on Iranian Intermediate Learners’ Writing Fluency

Subject Areas : Applied Linguistics

Saeideh Fatahzadeh ¹ , sajad Shafiee ² , Fariba Rahimi Esfahani ³

1 - PhD Candidate, Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

Received: 2023-04-25 Accepted : 2023-06-28 Published : 2023-01-01

Keywords: intermediate learners, writing fluency, Consciousness-raising, Vocabulary Input Flooding,

Abstract :

This study aimed to explore the impact of consciousness-raising via vocabulary input floodingon Iranian intermediate learners’ writing fluency.To this purpose, 80 EFL learners were selected as intermediate participants through a language proficiency test (OPT), and randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group, each including 40 intermediate male and female learners.The treatment for the experimental group lasted 13 two-hour sessions in which the participants were exposed to consciousness-raising tasks via vocabulary input flooding. the control group received no treatment and just followed the conventional teaching procedures.At the end of the treatment, a writing test was administered for both groups, and the collected data was analyzed using paired-samples t-test The results of data analysis showed that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group in writing fluency. This finding might have theoretical and pedagogical implications for language teachers/learners, curriculum designers, ELT policy-makers, and stakeholder